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I am about to get a proven pair of okeetee corns from a frind and they are absolutely amazing and produce some beatiful babies. I actually have one of the males from last year myself. My question is, is it hard on the females to breed every year or would it be better to do every other year? Also how many years can the avg famale produce before she needs to be retired. Both the male and the famal are only in there 2nd breeeding season right now so I am sure I have a few years but I havnt been able to find a awnser on when they need to retire.
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>>I am about to get a proven pair of okeetee corns from a frind and they are absolutely amazing and produce some beatiful babies. I actually have one of the males from last year myself. My question is, is it hard on the females to breed every year or would it be better to do every other year? Also how many years can the avg famale produce before she needs to be retired. Both the male and the famal are only in there 2nd breeeding season right now so I am sure I have a few years but I havnt been able to find a awnser on when they need to retire.
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I have heard of people breeding them up to ten or more years.
I doubt seriously there is a specific "cut-off" age, I think you would just have to go by the health and condition of the individual snake.
If it breeds for six or seven years with a fairly consistent production rate and then over the course of a couple of seasons that production begins to drop I would tend towards retiring that snake before I jeopardised its health.

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