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can anyone give me some tips on breeding hogs.i have a pair of westerns.i normally kept them seperate but its been about a year now and i put them together.im clueless on how to breed them..are they alot like boids or different? if anyone can give me some tips.im sure they wont be able to breed until 2 or 3 years old. i'd appreciate some help. thank you

Here's a tip - put a male and female together in early Spring.

OK, that's it for getting them to breed. Glad I could help lol.

Pay more attention to preparing a nest for the female to lay eggs in. I'll let the more experienced hog breeders take it from here.

Also, expanding on what I said above, if the female is unresponsive to the male's advances, pull him out and try again in a few days or a week. Honestly, getting colubrids to mate is nothing, as long as the time of year is right and the snakes are sexually mature adults. For males, that can be 9 months old. Females can breed very young too. If they produce follicles, they can breed. Size of the female doesn't matter in that respect. Larger females may produce more eggs. A Winter cooldown is necessary. Actually, cool nights and darkness for a few months is all that is really needed, but caresheets will often say 55 deg for 12 weeks.

Boas are tougher. Alot of pampering of the female.
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Mark

Well, I live in FL, so I do not brumate mine, and they breed just fine, even double clutching.

Size and age are important for the female. If she breeds to young or too small, then she can become egg bound. As far as the season thing goes, I don't know, I have 2 westerns that laid in November, so........

It seems you have plenty of time to do research. One thing I can suggest is to NOT put them together until the female is the appropriate age / size.
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

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>>Size and age are important for the female. If she breeds to young or too small, then she can become egg bound. >>
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I'll agree with you for captivity. Evidence that small females get eggbound because of their size is not conclusive. In the wild, small females of other types of colubrids have been found gravid, and they lay eggs just fine. But as has been stated before, our cages are not the wild, so who knows. It could be that captive snakes do not have the best muscle tone or lack some key element.. all conjecture on my part. Better to play it safe though. Have you had small hognose females get eggbound?
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Mark