>>Justin,

>>According to my Ranco thermometer it's only 85 in my rack. I think snakes from the CA deserts could handle that. It has been 17 days since her last shed. She began laying on day 14. Yesterday, I pushed the egg from about midbody firmly down to her vent. It would not go any farther, her vent didn't gap or anything. I went ahead and left her alone thinking she would be able to push it out the rest of the way. When I checked on her later that day the egg had moved right back up to midbody. What should I do? Also, I have skimmed through other topics on this and the milksnake forum with no avail.



i know my other post was unbearably long, sorry! but as noted there, when you "move" the egg and it later retreats to where it was, you may have an egg adhered to the oviduct...you push, the oviduct stretches, the egg seems to move, but when you let go the oviduct contracts to its original dimensions and takes the egg with it, back to the original position. Someone else may have another home tdreatment for that, but i don't, sorry, that would be the point i'd either administer calcium, followed by oxytocin (and i'd have very small expectation of success with that, under the circumkstances) or i'd take her in for exam (expecting surgery). good luck.



terry

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