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How many times should I let my female breed? They have already locked up twice. That enough? I really wasn't expecting to breed this season and shes not breeding material. Do I just keep trying to feed her? Or will that hurt her?

P.S. She is NOT unhealthy!! She is just not breeding weight. Dont be thinking I dont feed her just beacause shes not breeding!

if you hadn't planned on breeding... why are they together... and we got a bunch of corn snakes in- guy bred an 06 female to an 04 male... she's horridly skinny, looses every meal, and the 3 eggs she had, hatched and they are a little deformed...
all because the guy didnt wait until she was actually big enough to breed... now shes my money pit....

just my 2 cents... if you dont want to breed, seperate them... other wise... whatever...
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They were housed together for less than a week. We have some new cages and were just getting situated. We dont keep them together.

It's still on you that you housed an underweight female in with some breeding size males. A little more rearranging could have had that cage filled with just males, or females ready to breed, and that female wouldn't have accidentally bred. Captive snakes don't have "accidents" the way unfixed dogs do; dogs will go out and find a mate, snakes have to be put together.

In any case, I'd keep an eye on her, offer her food, and if she's not up to breeding weight or you don't think she's fit enough to breed this year...don't pair her with a male any more. She may ovulate, she may not. My female that laid this year ovulated and laid a huge clutch after being paired with my male just twice - and the first time was almost four months prior to the second!

If it happens, it happens, and hopefully the female is up to laying eggs.

~jenny
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Thanks for the reply. I fed the snake 3 rats and will offer her more and monitor her progress.