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anybody heard of this?
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never saw it .......thousandsssssssss of corn eggs...

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Never heard of a snake eating her own eggs...I have heard of live bearing snakes eating the yolk of unfertilized ova's.

If the eggs are bad, perhaps she decided to eat them to regain the nutrients. However haven't heard of egg laying snakes doing this (other than egg eating snakes...but far as I know most eat bird eggs and eggs of other reptiles).
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PHLdyPayne

ive heard of it happening with king snakes many times actually. i "THINK" i remember hearing about a corn doing it once but cant say for sure. its not completely out of the realm of possibility if the snake is hungry in the wild she may eat her own eggs so that she may go on to procreate another year. if food is scarce. ya never know. i have a customer who feeds her corn robin eggs when available, and the snake eats them without prejudice.
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.

I've heard of it and seen it in hognose. I had a female hog take down a dozen or so infertile eggs this year, and I know of others that lost fertile eggs this way as well.

I haven't seen or heard of it in corns. Not to say it couldn't happen, I just never heard of it.

Ratsnakes are egg-eaters, but a mother will be protective of her own eggs. Something must have gone wrong for this to happen and I'm surprised she would be so hungry right after laying. Did you leave her with the eggs for a lengthy time?

TC

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