Let her run through your hands and place your fingers on her underbelly with slight pressure. If there are eggs, you will feel them. A first year breeder may have a second clutch if she is in good condition and recovers quickly from her first clutch. A second breeding is not necessary because she may have retained sperm. Also, sperm retention is much longer than a couple of weeks. Check it out in the book "Keeping and Breeding Snakes". There are documented cases of a year and much longer.

If she does have eggs, obviously do not cool her.



One of my younger females produced a clutch of 10-12 eggs without breeding. I can send a pic of her coiled around them. Not viable/fertile but obviously she was ready even if I did not think she was. I can't wait to let her breed next year, she should easily double clutch.

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• Second clutch?? - centrewood, Sat Nov 29 15:39:24 2003
• when was she last with a male? - IcedGoddess, Sat Nov 29 20:27:57 2003
• RE: when was she last with a male? - centrewood, Sun Nov 30 12:49:11 2003
• RE: Second clutch?? - John Q, Sun Nov 30 09:41:30 2003
• thanks for the correction.. - IcedGoddess, Sun Nov 30 10:00:35 2003