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how many females can i male breed to in one season?

I can only speak from my own experiences, but quite a few...LOl

Snake are fun too.

so how do you breed one male to 2 or 3 females? do you just introduce them one after another or do you wait a few days after each breeding?

Males can be bred to multiple females, usually breeders will put a male into the cage of a female, give him two days or when lockup is observed, they then move him to the next female cage and repeat. Most will bred a few females then give the male a rest for a couple days, offer some food if he takes it, then put him back into more female cages.

The male is rotated through all the females throughout the cooling period will ovulation is noticed or the females stop showing interest in breeding...However I don't recommend putting one more with more than 4-5 females. Make sure he gets that rest period though, this gives him time to develop more sperm..he has a limited supply and will run out if he is continuously bred without a break.
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PHLdyPayne

It depends on a lot of factors - some males breed more readily than others - and some will literally breed themselves to death so you have to be careful.

I've used 3 days in - 3 days out - pull them out sooner if they are done copulating - four days out if they feed while on break. But I keep my males down to 1-3 females - lots of people like to run their male through 5-7 females.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

(CJBianco explaining the origins of the BP market.)
"In the beginning Bob created the Ball Python market. And the market was without morph, and wild traits were upon the industry. And Bob said, Let there be morph, and there was morph. And Bob saw the morph, that it was good; and Bob divided the morph from the wild trait. And Bob called the morph Albino, and the wild trait Normal. And the Albino and the Heterozygous Albino were the first investment.
-- Christopher 1:1-1:5"

I agree with Tosha I only cycle my male thru 3 females tops, you don't want them to run them thru to many because it will drop the sperm count and increase your chance of infertile eggs.
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Damian Macioce
www.strongholdreptiles.com

anyone actually ever have an animal breed to death ?
please share circumstances.
thanx in advance ,
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