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A couple days after laying her second clutch, my lavendar female enjoys a well deserved meal. A couple of corn snake eggs that were infertile.

Eleven eggs in this clutch.

--Dennis

She doesn't look much worse for wear after a second clutch, no less. I wonder what prevents them from eating their own eggs? Maybe the scent?
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

>>I wonder what prevents them from eating their own eggs? Maybe the scent?
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But they do eat their own eggs sometimes. I'd suggest it might not be prudent to feed kings other snakes' eggs: After all, scenting introduces snakes to new foods which they then take routinely. I'd worry about introducing snakes to eggs as a food item.

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But they do eat their own eggs sometimes. I'd suggest it might not be prudent to feed kings other snakes' eggs: After all, scenting introduces snakes to new foods which they then take routinely. I'd worry about introducing snakes to eggs as a food item.

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Your point is well taken. I don't routinely offer them. Interestingly, oh about 15 years ago I had a cal king lay a few infertile eggs a couple of days after laying "good eggs", and at the moment I found her with those eggs, she was consuming them. But to my knowledge such a thing never happened again with her.

--Dennis

Nice lavender and cool pictures too.
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