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RE: Female cal king trying to eat male...

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Posted by: DISCERN at Tue Mar 18 20:45:54 2014   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DISCERN ]  
   

What you have experienced is the fun of breeding Cal kings!! HAHA!!

They are pretty much unpredictable at times. Everything you have talked about can and will possibly happen.

Was the female hungry? Who knows? Maybe? Maybe not. They are cannibalistic, which many seem to forget about in this hobby. That is their instinct. No such thing as bonding with animals such as snakes. That theory always is preceded with advice of feeding the animals as much as they will eat. In doing so, stuffing the animals with food may create the illusion that there is bonding going on, when in reality, they are just full and not acting upon their instinct to cannibalize. That action of stuffing the animals is actually being used as a preventative, which shows that no bonding is actually happening. If the animals truly were bonding, they would bond no matter how much they were eating. It is what it is.

I have known many breeders who have bred 1000s of kings. None of them ever " bonded " their kings, they had tons of babies every year, and that was the result of the females and males NOT trying to eat each other, but just breeding successfully, while being caged separately at all times, but being placed together only for breeding.

Should they be well fed? Of course! Still, they are unpredictable. I would pair them up, keep an eye, and see how it goes. Again, this is how much fun breeding them is!! HAHA!
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