I had a female cal that I raised and bred with the same male for 10 straight years and never had a single infertile eggs. (until she was 12 yrs old)



Then I got a clutch of "mutant" babies (wierd, bull-dog looking things with lower jaw longer than upper jaw)



I figured it was a result of her age...gave her a year off, and then she bred at age 14 (a 100% infertile clutch)



then again at 15 years she gave me a perfect clutch of 13 eggs which hatched into perfect babies.



The plan was to see how long she continue to breed...until I was a nit-wit and accidentally let her get eaten by an indigo snake.



I wonder how long snakes really live?

The herp hobby is not really that old.



I have a friend who caught an ADULT corn snake in SC in 1980 (26 years ago) and it's still about the same size as it was when he caught it and still healthy.

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• Breeding Old males.... - Keith Hillson, Fri Sep 16 09:22:28 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - Joe Forks, Fri Sep 16 09:44:27 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - BobBull, Fri Sep 16 10:49:28 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - Aaron, Fri Sep 16 11:31:06 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - Dobry, Fri Sep 16 11:32:23 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - Keith Hillson, Fri Sep 16 12:53:59 2005
• good topic...aging breeders... - DeanAlessandrini, Fri Sep 16 13:48:15 2005
• RE: good topic...aging breeders... - Dobry, Fri Sep 16 14:42:33 2005
• RE: Breeding Old males.... - Snakesunlimited1, Fri Sep 16 20:31:38 2005