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A 1000 gm. emale is still too light to breed right? Or not?

You should wait until 1500g

I have been told everything from 1200 to 1600 grams minimum which goes along with what the previous poster said but I usually cant stand the wait so if I have a female that makes a good solid 1200 and I mean on empty not with a rat or two in it I will try breeding it. If it is 1170 or 1190 and I can put it over 1200 grams with a rat in it I will wait until next year and then you have your 1600 gram girl that is good to go and you could expect to get a larger clutch the next year instead of a 4 egg clutch with the tiny female. Good luck, I had several I wanted to breed this year that missed the weight like 4 of my Cinnamons and a Lesser and a couple of my Spiders but they will be well over for next year and that is something to be tickled about. Jay from Sunny AZ
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1000 is a tad too small. I've bred 1300 gram girls with no problems. Got 5-6 eggs out of them.

I definitely wouldn't try a 1000 gram though.

Then again, I've heard of people getting 4 eggs out of 900 gram girls, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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two choices...

1. wait until she hits minimum weight of 1200grams then start

or

2. breed now and feed heavily hoping she will gain the wait she needs to produce viable eggs.

option 2 has more of a chance that she will throw more slugs if she becomes gravid.....which means you basically wasted her energy to produce slugs.

if you decide to wait till next year, she would easily be over 1500grams, and from my experience females at that weight usually always throw good eggs, and still leaves the female at good weight to recover for the next season.

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>>A 1000 gm. emale is still too light to breed right? Or not?
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My minimum is 1350g. Females at least that weight usually have no problem.

I definitely agree 1000g is too small to breed, especially if your main concern is the health and welfare of your snakes. Giving its rather late season for breeding anyway, you certainly can feed her well and get her up to breeding weight (1500g is good goal to aim for) she will be ready for cooling in the fall for next year's season.

It may be physically possible to breed her and have her produce a few eggs, but it puts alot of stress on her and her after lay weight may end up making it very difficult for her to get back up to breeding weight for the next season...especially if she's finicky when it comes to eating, or decides to refuse food afterwards.

Not sure what kind of stress pregnancy puts on a female...as any human woman who's had a baby in the last year or two LOL.

Human females can have children as young as 12 years of age...but it takes a really hard toll on them physically. Hence why average woman is closer to 25 when they have their first child. (In the US average age of women to have first child is 24.9).
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