Here's what happened with some of my eggbound females...

I had an albino female in her first year of breeding in 2002. She dropped only slugs. The next year she dropped some good eggs, but was eggbound with one. I palpated it out and it was a calcified egg which I think was from the year before. Apparently I palpated too hard and tore her oviduct as she died the next day.

I had a female hypo that was eggbound last year. I didn't want to risk hurting her, so I had the vet aspirate the egg. However, she never would pass the shell. Eventually it moved back up the oviduct to her midbody area. I feared the worst during this year's breeding season, but she dropped a clutch just fine and I never did see the shell.

I then had another female get eggbound this year with a really huge egg. I decided to not do any intervention. Her egg also moved back up the oviduct to midbody after a week or so, then later on I found the shell in her cage (I had not aspirated that one).
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

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