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Any help would be appreciated. Is it ok to feed a female that's gravid when she is due any day now?
thanks in advance

IMO, if she really is due any day, then wait.

If it's been a while since she last ate and she is acting hungry, then a small meal at most.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
12.24 BRB
11.13 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

What do you consider a small meal? She is at least 60lbs and 10 1/2 feet.
thanks again

n/p
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Caden Chapman
slithering.serpents@gmail.com
slithering-serpents.com

1.1 guyana bcc
1.2 suriname bcc
0.2 DH snow bci
0.1 red possible DH snow bci
0.2 hypo possible het moonglow bci
0.1 possible het albino bci

Well, at 60 lbs and 10 1/2 feet, she must be eating rabbits. Maybe a large rat or two would suffice as a small meal.

Seriously though, if she's really due any day, I'd wait. No sense adding feeding into the equation so close to parturition (sp?).

And yeah...PICS, love to see the big girls and add to that gravid, she must be huge!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
12.24 BRB
11.13 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

The 60lbs is from my husband that's what he's guessing. I'll wait to feed her. I'm attaching a photo of her that was taken in Sept, I don't have a recent one of her. Thanks again for your help.

that one.... 60 lbs might be a bit of an understatement if she really is 10 1/2 feet I'd say closer to 80 lbs.

I say that from experience, I had a 10 1/2 foot 60 pounder and yours is definately girthier.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
12.24 BRB
11.13 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Yea I think a big litter is coming as well. The waiting is killing me. Hopefully the Ghost I bred her to proves out. I'll take pics of the litter when it arrives.

...yeah id say she weighs more than 60,my 9 footer weighs 60 and your snake makes her look small!!

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0.1 c.b.97' 9' 60 lb. common boa "scarlet"
1.0 c.b.02' 6' 15 lb. "hi pink" common boa "maverick"
0.1 c.b.06' 17" firebelly x pastel boa "betty boa"
2 savannah monitors Ozzy & Uggy

1.0 everglades x yellow ratsnake c.b. 04' 4' "pooh"
1.0 c.b.06' redear slider "dweezil"
1.0 c.b.04' emorys ratsnake "zeus"

"...does it bite?"

n/p
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Caden Chapman
slithering.serpents@gmail.com
slithering-serpents.com

1.1 guyana bcc
1.2 suriname bcc
0.2 DH snow bci
0.1 red possible DH snow bci
0.2 hypo possible het moonglow bci
0.1 possible het albino bci