1)How can I tell if my female is gravid since I think I missed ovulation? & 2)My female has been bred to my male and I witnessed copulation 9 times, She shed once early in the season and now is very large and is going to shed again.The question is how many times will they shed before they ovulate and/or lay? Thanks!!
Stevebp
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ovulation question?
stevebp
Jan 09, 2007 12:28 AM
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j3nnay
Jan 09, 2007 01:40 PM
This second shed is probably your post-ovulation shed, and you'll have slightly less than a month til eggs. If her lower half looks big, she's laying in a perfect coil on the warm side of the enclosure, starting to get rather grumpy when you open the cage...you've got a gravid snake. You'll know she's about to lay when it looks like her backbone is stickin out when she's laying in her coil. When I saw that (and didn't think my girl was gravid) I just about flipped because I was wondering how on EARTH my female had gotten so skinny lookin so quick.
Good luck, and get the incubator ready 
~jenny
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