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markg
at Wed Jun 11 10:22:16 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]
Bill Love (of CornUtopia, now run mainly by his wife Kathy) commented on this somewhere I read. In the early days, they kept and bred corns in boxes smaller than the 28 qt blanket boxes used widely today. As soon as they went to larger enclosures, the incidences of egg binding decreased by quite a bit.
You can see from the above that giving the snakes more room helps. Also, keeping females less fat helps, as does regular exercise. As oldherper pointed out, there may be other factors, but you can minimize the likelyhood of egg binding by keeping active snakes like many kings, milks, corns/rats and gophers/bulls in cages that offer enough room. Yes, they may spend 90% of the time crammed in a hide spot, but they should be able to stretch out somewhat when they want.
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Mark 
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