I'd get an incubator ready. Might be fat but I'm thinking eggs.

I'm just trying to learn to palpitate so maybe someone can correct me if I get it wrong but I've been able to feel a few of the actual eggs in some of my females this year. What I do is let them crawl back into the cage through my hands. I form a bit of a restriction with my palms pushing down on the top of the snake and use my fingers pushing lightly into her belly to feel for eggs as she crawls through. I'm thinking that if they are just fat you will not feel individual lumps. I'm being pretty careful as I'm worried about hurting them or the eggs but I think as long as you let them crawl through they can stop if it's hurting them. I'm not good enough at this to get a good count of eggs but have been able to feel the last one or two individually on a couple of girls now.

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• Im Confused - bsleeper, Sat May 17 21:40:51 2003
• Oops wrong pic - bsleeper, Sat May 17 21:42:11 2003
• RE: Oops wrong pic - RandyRemington, Sat May 17 22:31:12 2003
• The Mini Me Morph! And patternless!! Should be worth a fortune. Congrats!! n/m - jfmoore, Sat May 17 21:53:29 2003
• LOL - bsleeper, Sat May 17 22:28:11 2003
• Which One??? - JohnZ, Sat May 17 22:34:02 2003
• 2 and a half sorry - bsleeper, Sun May 18 00:48:13 2003
• RE: Im Confused - capbruce, Sat May 17 22:39:47 2003
• RANDY more PICS what do you think??? - bsleeper, Sun May 18 01:53:45 2003
• Well that didnt work This time it did i hope - bsleeper, Sun May 18 01:57:36 2003
• RE: RANDY more PICS what do you think??? - RandyRemington, Sun May 18 08:59:58 2003