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I have a 10 year old normal female ball python that I took in a couple years ago as a rescue. She is about 4 feet long. She was underweight with skin hanging on her. Once she was hydrated and eating decent sized meals on a regular basis she put on a lot of weight and filled out nicely. Even though she had never been with or near a male bp, in july 05 she presented me with a clutch of 8 eggs. The eggs were about the size and weight of a large chicken egg. They went bad after two weeks (infertile).

Today she now weighs in at 2495 g (5.5 lbs) with an empty stomach so she's put on quite a bit of weight in the last year compared to the year before. Her weight at the time she was gravid was around 2387g / 5.25 lbs).

I plan on breeding her with a friend's axanthic het albino male soon. For her size/weight and considering the size of the infertile clutch, can I reasonably expect her to lay a similar sized or a larger size clutch this time around?
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PHWyvern

yes she should lay at least 8 again........maybe even 10

some girls lay the same number year after year.....I have 7 girls and 8 girls and 9 gilrs.......my 10 girls turned into 12 girls then back to 11 and 10 due to being too big....

I had at least 3 girls lay 9 this year that were only 22 months old.......

.........she'll do well
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