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hello how hard are they to breed? is a male 4' 15lbs big enough to breed and is a female 25lbs big enough to breed? thanks for any replies, clint
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2.3 beardies 1.0 uromastyx and more to come

Hey,
In answer to your question, the truth of the matter is that no matter if you are gettting breeding activity with males and females actively engaged in copulation, such activity does not guarantee a successful breeding or future clutches of eggs.

Males and female Boids, or snakes for that matter are not born with a defined number of follicles in their ovaries as are people or other warm blooded creatures; so for snakes to produce follicles and or ova, and sperm for males, they must have a defined period of cooling or some environmental change (reduced light period-temperature etc.), inorder for there to be a physiological change or cue in the body of the adults to take place. With out it, there can take place all of the breeding in the world, but if there is no change in the environment (introduced males-some times,but not gauranteed!) or some kind of physiological stimulus to trigger the development of follicles and sperm, your chances for producing babies, regardless of the number of observed copulations by the observer or keeper, will be minimal or reduced.

In answer to your first question, YES!, the weights described for both male and female is a good starting weight for both genders and might be ideal, however, such weights should not be weights that have been gained via power feeding your animals. it has been noted that obese males and females are not very productive and will suffer from low fecundity rates. Such weights should be gained over long periods of at least 3-4 years (maturity rates/age!) and not accomplished by over-zealously, power feeding males and females every week with the intent to breed them in their first year or second; such thinking with bloods, will garner a possible obese animal and perhaps too, a dead one sooner or later.
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In the theater of my life, this pickle has no goal!!

woah.....my boy is about 4 feet 3 inches and is about 6-7 pounds....and he's not even 2 years old....does that mean im under feeding him?!?!?!
and here i though 1 medium or large rat per week was good and healthy for him.
????? *confused*

thanks they are 3 years old so its all good thanks for the info though, clint
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2.3 beardies 1.0 uromastyx and more to come

No problem, good luck with the project!!
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In the theater of my life, this pickle has no goal!!

well i havnt got them yet but im getting 0.2 adult female red bloods instead of the pair cause the male that i was originally was going to get is wc and i heard its hard to get them to breed so im tradeing for 2 females instead the second female is 4.5' and 15lbs so im going to get them all ready for next breeding season and get a male in the spring and breed them
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2.3 beardies 1.0 uromastyx and more to come

It's a little of both things here, with the males you have a better chance of producing some stock, but, the males if wild caught and bred to a CB animal, can transmit infectious parasites to CB stock (even if treated). Females on the other hand - don't take to breeding as readily or well, and even if they do breed, you run into the low fertility (fecundity) rate probability, with wild caught females.
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In the theater of my life, this pickle has no goal!!