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Hey everyone! This season is looking good so far with the boa breeding. This is my first season with boas. Been working with balls and colubrids forever so will probably be asking some questions in here for a while. Any advise is appreciated. I'm rotating an '05 male orange tail het coral sunglow male with a female albino, and an '04 female anery het snow. Any advise on a rotating cycle with my male? rest periods? and do most of you feed females through the breeding season or stop completely? i've heard mixed opinions either way. Here's a couple pics i snapped so far. What do you all think?

Well,,,if you have another male that can breed,,i would make sure both females have a male on there own.

Yes i feed my females in breeding time,,,But only small meals and maybe every 3 weeks if they look hungry.

Te males will rest at there own time,,,so i dont take them out if they are not courting for a while,,,i just leave them in the whole season (half way october till Ovulation)

Just give your female plenty of fresh water and let the Boas do there thing,,,,after all, they know best

Best of luck and Enjoy yourself,,,because the Boas will to.

Toine
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Hey Chad,

Great looking pairs. I've bred 1 male to 2 different females in the same season only a couple of times with success. But each time, I let the male stay with 1 female the entire time until I was sure she ovulated and was gravid. Then I'd feed the male a meal or two, and throw him in with female#2. This of course means starting the male on female #1 early in the season and hoping that you have a receptive female #2 waiting in the wings who is still receptive later on in the season. I just think that the window for receptive females is so small, that you might miss it if you're rotating a courting male between two females at the same time. Personally, I would think about what female you REALLY want babies from and concentrate on her first, then if she takes, move the male onto the next female once your certain female #1 is gravid.

Just my very humble opinion. Good luck with your pairings.