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I see alot of folks selling normal adult females, and even I can see myself selling off some of the average sized ones that lay average sized clutches anytime now. I did however have a normal female that's in my mind a keeper (one I just breed every other year) lay this fertile clutch of 13 today. She was bred once or twice first to my Calico then bred 2 or 3 times to my oldest Mystic . I hope to get a few girls to holdback of each morph from her clutch but we will have to just see how it pans out! Just for the heck of it I put her on the scale today after I took her off the clutch, she is now 3245 grms after laying a 1360 grm clutch, so even if she only lays every other year I think she can still hang around without worrying about getting replaced! Sometimes they don't have to be eye popping to keep!

Anthony McCain

That's a keeper in my book! That's a sweet clutch, best wishes on the out come.
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1.0 Sunrise (sshhh)
1.0 orange ghost mojave
1.0 Het pied
1.0 Hypo
1.0 Spider Het Hypo
0.1 orange ghost mojave
0.1 Hypo
0.1 mojave
0.4 Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.2 poss Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.1 poss Het albino
0.1 het pied
0.1 Bell Jungle
0.6 normal breeders
0.1 black pastel (unproven)
0.1 Tiger ball (unproven)
0.1 genetic reduced pattern
0.1 black back
0.1 mojave (best looking one ever! thanks Jeff Luman)
0.1 Pastel Het ghost
1.0 posslble salmon boa
0.1 BCI 8.5 ft
1.0 (creamcicle?) (okatee?) digging in to his genetics . . .
1.0 snow corn
1.0 anery motley
0.1 anery motley
0.1 ghost motley corn
0.1 lavendar het hypo
0.1 miami het hypo
0.1 coral snow
0.1 miami
0.1 sunglow
0.1 candy cane
0.1 love line okatee
0.1 blue tail monitor
2.2 felines aka boa food ;o
And I am not gonna count all those rats . . .

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I agree...gotta hold on to those large clutch females. This girl laid 12 last year with 1 slug and 12 fertile this year.

Last season

This season

12 nice eggs

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Dino White

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Congratulations on the awesome clutch.

So is it that you purposely only try to breed her every other year or that is just all the more often she goes?

I've got a girl who laid 13 eggs out on a breeding loan in 2007 after skipping several years. She was hatched in 1996 and produced 6 eggs in both 2001 and 2002 before skipping (and getting fat) and finally producing again in 2007. I still hold out some hope for this year but even if she does go that’s only 4 of the last 9 years. I don't know what the trick would be to get her to go more often but I guess I can't begrudge her the rest after the 2007 clutch. Still only averaging a little over 3 eggs a year.

But I have another big girl who took years to start (10 based on my estimate of when she hatched) but has now gone three years in a row 9, 14, 11. Both are plenty good eaters but I needed to work on getting the every year one back up assuming she might feel like going again (after the other one I'm almost afraid if she skips a year she will not get going again). I’m almost thinking I like my consistent 5 to 7 egg producing smaller line better some times as they seem to go more consistently.