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jeff favelle
at Fri Nov 7 19:40:22 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jeff favelle ]
Because we haven't seen the animal. I have seen 2,500g females that I wouldn't breed because they looked emaciated. But I bred a 1200g female last year and got 6 HUGE eggs. But she was less than 4 feet long and STOCKY. Weight means jack. Its a good guideline for beginners raising a baby snake to breeding size, but I never weigh any animals anymore. If they are fat enough, they breed and lay eggs, if they aren't, I wait until the next season.
Point is, snakes, like humans, come in all shapes and sizes. Look at the body-weight of your animal and determine if it will breed, or post a relevant picture here (to scale) and get our opinion. But saying you have a 1300g animal doesn't tell me a whole lot.
And the lightest I've ever bred a female was 1150g and she gave 5 biggie-sized eggs. All fertile.
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