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Is it too late to introduce a male to a female? I know the appropriate time is November, but my balls just came of weight and I was wondering if it a viable concept that I would have hatchlings by the Daytona show...Thank you for your time

NO !! . there is a natural breeding season , BUT you can actually breed at any time , but only once a year per snake , it just depends on when you cool them . If you breed out of the normal season and you won’t to go back to the traditional season you will have to skip a year to 2years depending on what date they last laid a clutch . Hope this helps . David

Is it logical if I make my introductions this weekend, that I may have hatchlings by the Daytone show (late August)?

I breed for 3-5 months a year and get eggs laid usually May-October. I know people with larger collections than mine that get eggs 11-12 months out of the year now from fall/winter breeding. You just never know with ball pythons.

if you didn't breed yet....go ahead?

even if you didn't introduce the male to female, she MAY still be going through a cycle that would make her ovulate any day now to any month now?....so if you breed her at least an hour (yea I know,days)...before she ovulates...the sperm will be in the oviducts ready to meet the ovum when ovulation causes it to drop down into them.........

as long as it's in there , it's in there....

does not matter if it's been there a day or 4 months waiting for ovulation....

does it help to breed 10 times and have her all ready to go for months...?....YES.........

but it could all go well....

breed all winter,ovulate March , lay May, hatch July....
breed today, ovulate March, lay May, hatch July....all possible...

even if she goes late....so do alot that I been breeding for months now....I get eggs from June till late August I think it was....

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anyone live in the tampa area? thanks for the helpful responses...

850 mils from Tampa???

PA, Columbia.......!......

Hail the crimson TIDE....LOL......

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Use to, wish I still did. Cold weather is not for me, hoping to move back soon.. Where in tampa are you?
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1.1 spider
0.2 pastel
0.1 pastel het ghost
1.0 mojave het ghost
0.1 lesser
1.0 lemon blast
0.1 fire

I am i the USF area. I actually am a student there and love it here. I am originally from the Bronx. Where in Tampa did you live?

The Bronx hum, Well that explains A lot ! LOL!!!! Just pocking fun no harm mint . David

Lufkin Texas here , David

70 miles south of tampa in Port Charlotte. shoot me an email.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, an amel tiger retic female, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

I'm in lakeland FL. I hour from Tampa and Orlando..
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This is courage.. to bear unflinching what heaven sends. -unknown

2.0 chocolate lab (Harley) and basset (Capone)
0.1 leopard gecko (Nacho)
1.0 Normal ball python (Arwen)
1.0 pastel ball python (Merlin)
0.1 Spider ball python (Rogue)
1.0 Normal ball (Arwen)