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amytruman Dec 08, 2003 06:32 PM

She is the one that I put with my pastel.
How many eggs do you think she will lay?

Replies (4)

gmherps Dec 08, 2003 08:17 PM

6 fat eggs! All fertile! So you better update your account so you can sell them fast!LOL

Good Luck!
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joels417 Dec 08, 2003 08:41 PM

Do we get an egg if we guess the right amount she lays?!?!

LOL, j/k

but i'll guess she lays 5 fertile eggs. 4 pastels just cause I am optomistic.

CONGRATS!!!

Joel

>>She is the one that I put with my pastel.
>>How many eggs do you think she will lay?
>>
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- Joel Smith

"If you're not part of the solution, you're still part of the problem"

jfmoore Dec 08, 2003 11:44 PM

“How many eggs do you think she will lay?”

How old is she? How long? How heavy? Ever bred before?
How old is the male? Has he produced any offspring previously?

Pretty snake! I like reduced pattern ball pythons, too.

-Joan

RandyRemington Dec 09, 2003 04:26 AM

How much does she weight?

It looks to me like female ball pythons generally lay about 1/3 of their pre-lay weight into their clutch so you can figure out about how much the clutch will weigh.

Next you need to guess how big the eggs will be. Has she laid before and if so did you weigh the eggs? Egg size seems to vary a lot more between females than the 1/3 of their weight thing. Some lay 80 gram eggs and some lay 120 gram eggs, it makes a lot of difference in how many you get.

Barring any better information you could use 110 grams/egg as a guess so you could predict the number of eggs by dividing her weight in grams by 330.

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