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More or less...I'm too excited to do math.

November 25, 2005 copulation;

March 21, 2006 eggs! 9 so far and they look good.
These are Texans, by the way. Thanks Dean, you are the best!

I think she is finished laying. She is still in the nest so I may not have got all of the eggs out.

14 eggs weighed between 55 and 65 grams. One, which is soft and not quite "full" feeling is 38 grams.

Here's a pic of the first dozen.

She laid about pounds of eggs!

of eggs...I'll try to calm down now.

How is Mom doing? That was an aweful lot of work..

Best of luck,

Jeff
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Jeff Snodgres
University of Arkansas
snodgresjeffreys@uams.edu
501.603.1947

She is quite deflated. If you saw her on the road you probably wouldn't bother to stop...

She's earned a bit of rest, that's for sure.

Congrats and don't calm down!! How exciting this has got to be for you.
Just think how you'll be when they hatch!!

good luck,
Steve

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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

Well done! In another 100 days or so we'll be looking for pictures of the hatchlings. Don't do this: When I was much younger and more ignorant I incubated first clutch of snake eggs from a wild-caught Eastern (hognose). I faithfully turned the eggs every day. I thought if it's good for chickens it must be good for reptiles. Every egg hatched perfectly. This is true. Looking back, maybe that's why they were especially good at playing dead, hognose style.

They scratch my hand!

I hope you didn't incubate those hognose at chicken temps! Makes me wonder why a snake hasn't evolved to lay it's eggs in bird nests. Or have I missed that one?

Mike, that's the most she's ever laid...but she always looks very deflated after laying.

She'll rest in a coma-like state for a day or 2 then she'll be ready to eat.

Feed her small meals regularly (just a couple of mice for the first meal)

After a couple weeks she'll be ready to eat everything in that's not nailed down.