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I have a normale female c.b. 1999.
Last year she bred and layed 25 fertile eggs with no slugs.
this year I decided not to breed her, anyway she ovulate and stopped eating.A classic example of sperm retention.
Three weeks ago she shedded, at that moment I could already feel the eggs inside her body, I counted 16 eggs, now 3 weeks passed and no eggs coming out.Yesterday she ate an adult mouse and I cannot feel any eggs inside her body.

I was just wondering if ovulation caused by sperm retention increase the risk of re-absorbing eggs.
Is it common or not?

Thanks for your replies,
Andrea S. (Italy).

Most adult females will ovualte every year regardless of if they were ever bred. If your female had retained sperm, you would have gotten fertile eggs. It is very common for corns to ovulate and have definate lumps and then to reabsorb. Some will tell you differently, but I have seen it many times myself. I have two unbred females that were packed with eggs and my vet said pretty much told me that the eggs were so far along that there is no way they can be absorbed and that I was going to get a clutch of duds. Well it has been two months and both females have no more lumps! And they definately didn't lay them. So give those gals a little more credit for not wasting all that nutrition!