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i am just wondering on the average clutch size for a first time female ball around 1200-1500 grams?

that depends big time. Is it a 4.5 year old female that is 1500g or an 18 month old 1500g snake. In my experience older lighter females in the 1500g range tend to lay between 5-8 eggs and very young females if they lay at all you are looking at a small clutch of 3-5. Sometimes they give you more, sometimes they give you less and sometimes none at all. We will be breeding a few 05's this next season and all of them are already over 1500g and pounding med rats with gusto. In 2 months when we start to cool they should be around 1800-2000g with no problem as long as they dont' take themselves off-feed.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

I bred 4 females that were from 2004......3 laid 9 each.....1 didn't lay......average 9 each unless you want to count the one that didn't lay.......

it all depends on the snake , the food, and the genetics.....

my girls come from big girls with big clutches.....(up to 12)....
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