If you ever plan on breeding anything of value then I would treat the clutch like it was a 10k clutch of eggs so you learn how to do it.. The eggs all have the exact same requirements so in my mind it would be foolish not to take the time to incubate them . If you don't and just destroy them thinking you will wait till they are worth more to bother karma may bite you in the well you know and the future clutch of value will persish as you won't know what your doing because you gave up the shot to learn with the inexpensive eggs you killed (if you even get them) and you will have horrible luck when that time comes no matter what you do. But feel free to not listen to my advice thinking I'm joking on this one!

She may be building follicles too FYI and this is actually her preovulation shed . If so she will ovulate in 5-7 more weeks and at that point she will swell up twice as much as what you recently seen (or more) when the true ovulation actually sets in. Try feeding her after she sheds if she eats then I doubt what you saw was ovulation as they usually won't touch anything after they have ovulated and mainly just sit on the warm side of the cage and do little other than bask..

Anthony McCain

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• Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 10:27:25 2010
• No such thing - mikebell, Tue May 11 11:14:48 2010
• could have been an accident - prestigepythons, Tue May 11 12:28:10 2010
• RE: could have been an accident - varanid, Tue May 11 12:30:19 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - anthony james mc, Tue May 11 12:55:14 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 14:50:04 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - anthony james mc, Tue May 11 16:52:52 2010
• Agreed.... - amcroyals, Wed May 12 03:44:32 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Tue May 11 17:14:46 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - Shadow4108, Tue May 11 19:54:20 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 21:18:36 2010
• Maternal Incubation - RandyRemington, Wed May 12 01:37:10 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Wed May 12 12:38:45 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - zippy00_99, Wed May 12 13:33:00 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - anthony james mc, Wed May 12 16:12:55 2010
• The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Wed May 12 21:15:01 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - RandyRemington, Wed May 12 22:59:34 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - anthony james mc, Wed May 12 23:27:12 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Thu May 13 01:51:42 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Thu May 13 01:33:44 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - RandyRemington, Thu May 13 18:48:43 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - kingofspades, Wed May 12 04:25:05 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Wed May 12 09:44:32 2010