Numbers are real easy....figure out how many feeders your snakes consume a week. Does not matter what size. Once your colony gets up to the "correct" size, you simply need to replace the number of animals yu take out each week (ish) So, for example, you have 4 baby snakes eating weekly, 6 subadults eating once every two weeks and another 8 adults also eating every other week that's 4 plus 6/2 plus 8/2 or 10 feeders on average each week. So, with that you need to produce one litter each week to maintain the colony. If numbers are over or under 10/litter you can have an adjust week now and then where you one more or one less female to tweak the colony size.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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• Rat breeding cycle - Crash1265, Sun Jul 19 20:21:45 2009
• RE: Rat breeding cycle - markru, Sun Jul 19 23:27:35 2009
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• RE: Time between Pregnancy - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 10:41:16 2009
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• RE: Time between Preganancy - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 11:01:43 2009
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• RE: Time between Preganancy - Sonya, Wed Jul 22 13:18:37 2009
• RE: Time between Preganancy - rainbowsrus, Wed Jul 22 17:24:13 2009
• Respectfully disagree...... - rainbowsrus, Wed Jul 22 17:41:46 2009
• RE: Respectfully disagree...... - Sonya, Thu Jul 23 18:27:08 2009
• RE: Rat breeding cycle - Sonya, Tue Jul 21 10:34:51 2009
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