i am doing exactly what you ask. To help you understand.



Do not prejudice your observations. In this case you do, you assume its a first clutch, when in fact it could be a first OR a second. So without any evidence what so ever, your SAYING its a first, or thinking its a first.



Doing that does no good for you, or others you talk to.



For instance, I do field work, The first thing I had to relearn was, do not judge the data. That is, do not even bother to think its this or that. You take data.



After you have numbers, then you can crunch them and the data speaks for itself.



I believe the biggest problem with this is not about the first clutch or second clutch. Its some base belief that snakes cannot find food well. Biologist in many cases assume the same. They and you think or react as if wild snakes cannot find food when its needed.



Again the evidence shows something other then that. Most wild snakes are very healthy. Some extremely healthy. Of course in drought years in the west, the percentage of healthy snakes drops. But still there are numbers of extremely healthy snakes.



So, as a collector breeder, you should know that you can catch a wild female and the next year in captivity she can or will double clutch. So its not a genetic type of thing, its merely a support type of thing.



So you assume, wild snakes cannot find food or support their natural abilities. Yet, the average wild snake is as healthy or more healthy then the average captive. Is that not true?

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