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I’ve had ball pythons produce more than 14 eggs before, but I can’t recall having so many LARGE eggs in one clutch. Egg mass ranged from 114.5 grams to 137.2 grams. All were fertile. Female weighed 3350 grams after depositing the clutch yesterday. And nope, she’s not any percent heterozygous for anything.

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Perhaps half will be females. Nice genetics to keep them for getting some hets!
Good looking eggs
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seeing them ripped away from their mom like that.......like you said only people abort their young not snakes..........

Joan:
That is a remarkable clutch. What's the history on this female, ie her current age, age when she first produced, anything else of interest. Congrats! P.S. You know I've got a few males, But they're MORPHS, that could hook-up very nicely with her down the road....!! SJM

Hi Scott –

This is one of those “Who knows?” animals. Someone bought her as an adult at a pet shop in 1991, kept her for almost a year but couldn’t get her to eat. She was 1.75 kg when he gave her to a friend who quickly got her feeding and passed her on to me. The animal was such an eager feeder that I recall her feeding every month of the year for some years. I didn’t put any effort into cycling her, so wasn’t surprised that she rarely produced eggs. Aside from the 14 egg clutch this week, she’s produced 2 clutches of 11 eggs each. When she hit 5.27 kg last November, I figured I ought to get serious about having her put some of those fat stores to better use! She’s ~64 inches long, good-sized but certainly no record.

-Joan

>>Joan:
>> That is a remarkable clutch. What's the history on this female, ie her current age, age when she first produced, anything else of interest. Congrats! P.S. You know I've got a few males, But they're MORPHS, that could hook-up very nicely with her down the road....!! SJM

WOW way to go sweet looking cluthc