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We woke up Thursday morning to find her with a pile of eggs. We are going to keep our fingers crossed that letting her incubate them herself will work out.

Brandie Wyatt
TW International Inc.

Here is our 6yr old male from OS High yellow bloodline.

Brandie Wyatt

Just keep her warm and the cage humid and she will be fine.I know this because mine did her own as well I got 4 out of ten I guess thats cool.

Thanks I saw all your post and was following what everyone was telling you to do. Lastnight she kicked out an egg and it was a bad one I think she just could not coil around all of them. We have 13 left so Im keeping my fingers crossed. How are your 4 babies doing and have you got pics yet. Here is our male we are hoping to breed soon.

Brandie

Congrats on the clutch Brandie. Quite often, females will push the infertile eggs out of the bee hive coil. This to me, is very interisting behavior........and people say snakes aren't smart. Good luck on the hatch and post some pics when you can. Hopefully you'll be seeing this in a few weeks to come.

Brandon

Hey Brandon, I may not be correct, but do you think that it is possible that the infertile eggs simply are to dry to adhere to the rest of the clutch and simply fall out?
Nick

The ability for ovipositional female pythons to determine egg viability and act to remove infertile eggs from the brood has been demonstrated several times. While National Geographic Explorer was shooting footage at VPI for a television special, they were able to capture a female spotted python laying her eggs. The time-lapsed segment showed the female nosing/tongue flicking and then using her coils to remove bad eggs. On one occasion she removed two fertile eggs along with one of the infertile ones and later went back, seperated the good eggs from the bad one, and pulled the good ones back into the pile she was brooding. Nature is indeed amazing!

DSCBS

Fascinating! I have never heard about that. Cool, Thanks.