{B]i live in central Texas and all I do is not feed for 3 months, (middle of November through middle of February) they stay in my garage which is uninsulated and don't use any heat at all, it usually stays above 50 in there, and I've never had a female refuse a male. I have speckled kings, Florida kings, and desert kings and have had lots of success, hope this helps

Same here. I have a snake room that gets down to 40F. i lave the heat tape on and feed them through winter.

They mostly stay on the cold end unless they ate and are digesting.


When I used to breed the old institutional method. I cooled young snakes for only two weeks and they bred. I also kew someone (Ververkas) who cooled snakes in a cooler for 2 weeks dyrung summer and the snakes bred in the fall.

Now that mine are housed together in bonded groups I get eggs during nov, dec, jan, feb marh. But the majority of my kings still breed in May and lay in june/july.
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