Wats the earliest that male and female bloods will breed
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Need a little help
kong79
Oct 24, 2007 04:44 PM
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Rich_Crowley
Oct 25, 2007 08:12 AM
This came up over the NARBC show weekend between Kara Glasgow, Ryan Norris and myself. We felt the 12lb range is minimum for any of the three short-tailed python species for minimum breeding weight. Age would be 3-4yrs. Males can go earlier at around 18 months but size is variable. I know Bob Garby and I spoke on this and males as small as say 6-8lbs can do the job. Not sure how fertile they are at this point. I prefer older larger adults to breed since I notice long-term problems with most pythons species. The older the female/males produce higher fertility and larger clutches over the long-term.
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