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I had a question for everyone about the largest clutches that you have had in your captive animals? I received a WC Bernalillo County, NM hognose from a friend of mine who laid a clutch of 22 eggs a few weeks after she was collected. The record wild clutch appears to be 23 based on Degenhardt et al. 1996. Has anyone had a clutch this size before? FYI the female weighed 344 grams pre lay and 248 post laying. One egg has since gone bad, but the remaining 21 are looking good.

Thanks,

Ian

I got 32 eggs from a 550 gram female this year. She laid 29 in 2010. 26 of the 29 hatched.
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Greg Bennett - Western Hognose Morphs
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I had a collection back in the late 90's up through around 2002. The females in that collection would give me clutches in the high teens, 18-19. Sometimes I would get a clutch in the low 20's, 22-24. One clutch was 28.
With my current collection I'm getting clutches of 7-10 and in the mid teens, 15-17. My females are younger and smaller. When I established my Red line I picked up a couple of what I would refer to as monster females. Females that should have produced clutches in the high 20's. I wanted to outcross and produce enough so I could start a few projects at the same time. This failed for me. ALL of the females had egg binding issues and one was an egg eater. None of my females are larger than 300 grams at this time. One of them that I picked up from a local breeder was egg bound twice this year.
A little more info than you asked for but I believe in sharing information, good and bad.
John Q

Those sound like huge cluthes to me! My three females drop around 12-18 eggs. The most I've ever had was 18, 17 of wich hatched. I still love seeing those little heads pop outh though.