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This clutch was a nice surprise!
The female was 4 years old and weighed 1300 grams when I put her into the breeding rotation. She was breed successfully by my Spider and my Pastel several times.
But unlike some of my other females that breed at around 1300 grams and continue to eat she stopped feeding altogether. I took her out of the breeding rotation and never saw her ovulate or show any signs of being gravid. As I was checking through the racks today for some reason I decided to lift the hide box to check on her and SURPRISE 3 fertile eggs.
Now the fun begins 1 Spider, 1 Pastel and a normal or????????

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Adrian
AFR
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Cool, good luck Adrian.

Quig

Great surprise! Best of luck!
Both dad's are great looking and mom is a beauty too. Hope you get some beauts.

You bred a female at 1300?! What the **** were you thinking?
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Sign of the Serpent

lol...do you believe everything the big guys tell you.

In reality most of them start females into the rotation at under 1000 grams....
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when life hands you lemons, make super lemons, bumblebees, etc...

what the **** do the "big guys" have to do with anything? Breeding a female at 1300 grams is greedy and selfish. fully mature weight is 2500 grams, then what are you breeding? A BABY. only greed and the hurry to get that many more eggs out of her that much faster would prompt anyone to breed that small.
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Sign of the Serpent

It was a 4 yr old female, some are just smaller, in the wild they have collected females that are 1000g laying but they are most likely older. They won't lay unless they are ready!
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Nita Hamilton
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Ball Pythons
ballpythonworld.com

Sorry I sent a reply to Simplyred...meant to reply to this thread. Congrats to the egg clutch surprise. I do aggree the female should be bigger...but over 2000 grams before you breed is silly. I feel the female should be close to three years old before breeding and over 1000 grams. One of my females hit 1000 grams and at 2 months shy of three she bred....gave me 5 large good eggs. I was surprised she could hold that many eggs...I was certain she had maby three....and barely was showing.

My advice to all who want to breed is wait till they are old enought and have good weight. The larger???? is said to give more eggs.

I bred a 1300g girl, she was 4 yrs old and laid 5 good eggs, she is also back up to her normal weight and eating habits and her babies just hatched. That is like saying a woman who is 26yrs but only weighs 100lbs should never have kids, some snakes are always going to be smaller, on the other hand I have a female that is 2100g and still isn't ready yet, 2 years going and still no eggs ever, if they aren't ready they won't lay.
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Nita Hamilton
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Ball Pythons
ballpythonworld.com