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Last year was my first year and I had 12 females out of 12 lay eggs. I live in arizona so the "cold" never really hits us. I cooled all my breeders first of december through the first of february then warmed them up slowly over 2 week period then late feb first of march I started breeding and feeding them?? So I quess my question is do a lot of people breed before or during the cooling period? What are the thoughts behind putting animals together during october?
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Brian Hettinger
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i've been having lockups since early september.........however i am over the big pond they call the atlantic sitting cozy in italy.

Pitoon

I am next door in SoCal and have begun to breed year-round. I bred right though summer -- and still am with no difficulty. I am careful to keep ambient heat betwen 77- 90 day/night. As long as you have a 3-5 degree difference between day and night temps you are golden!!!
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Bill Buchman

you breed year round do you get eggs year round as well? or do the females lay roughly the same time?
also do you not notice males going off feed for longer periods of time since they are breeding year round as well?
let me know
thanks
adam jeffery

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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

... this is my first year of continuous breeding (have been going since December) I have 12 girls between ovulation and laying as of today. I have locks every day, And now that I have made thru the hot summer months it should be back to usual.

If a male gets a little thin from going off food, I move them out of breeding room and out of rotation until they are back on food and gain some weight. Most of my males eat pretty well right thru breeding season. I don't let temps get below 77-78 degrees which might help.

It has worked out well so far. 2 of my better yearling project males did not start breeding until July. They are ROCKING the girls now and I anticipate some of my most exciting hatchlings in Dec. Jan. and Feb.!!!!
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Bill Buchman

I breed yearound and continue to do so until the female ovulates. I have one female Fire who bred her first time in Jan. and has continued on and off until she ovulated 15 days ago...
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Tom Crutchfield
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My males stopped eating, so I put them with females this last week.
The male pastel has locked with two females so far.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I started early this year, but I generally start pairing mid october. I tried a cooling period last year, and my snakes were having none of it. This year I only lowerd the temps by maybe 2 degrees. As long as I continue to see locks, I keep pairing-usually through february or march. I generally start getting eggs sometime in late marh or early april, on through the beginning of summer depending on how things work out. The only reason i started early this year is because it's been cool here so far and I've had males consistently refusing food.
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Snakes:
1.1 gray banded kingsnake
1.1 california kingsnake
1.1 kenyan sand boa
1.1 western hognose snake
0.1 albino checkered garter
1.0 florida blue garter
1.1 het anery red sided garter
1.1 reverse oketee corn snake
1.1 blood red corn snake
0.1 amel striped corn
1.0 amel 66% het striped corn
1.1 het albino ball python
1.1 het ghost ball python
0.1 spider ball python
1.0 pastel ball python
1.1 mojave ball python
1.0 butter ball python
0.1 ringer ball python
1.0 African dinker ball python
0.3 normal ball python
1.0 piebald ball python
0.1 het piebald ball python
0.1 Genetic Stripe Ball Python
1.0 Het Genetic Stripe Ball Python
0.1 Mystic Ball Python

Turtles
1-eastern box turtle
2-spotted turtle
2-eastern/midland painted turtle intergrade
1.0-common musk turtle
1-Pink bellied sideneck
6-Northern red belly

Invertebrates
0.1 southern black widow
1-Tanzanian Giant Tailless whipscorpion

Amphibians
0.1 Ornate Horned Frog

Birds:
1.1 red avadavit
2-blue breasted cordon blue
1.1-black cheeked waxbill
0.1-star finch
1.0-Java rice sparrow
2.0-owl finch
1.0-hybrid munia
0.1-White bellied caique

Fish
2-corydoras cats
1-African upside down cat

normal stuff
0.1 black lab