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Can someone tell me their way of doing this? I want to breed 2 females but only have one male. The boaphile says he does not cool his snakes, just uses light cycling, but he has one female for each male. Any help? Thanks Andy

maybe some else will help out here

This aproach works well with other snakes but with boas it normally leads to alot of slugs being born because of the low fertility rate when breeding 2 females with 1 male.

Ive heard it many time here.

hope this helps

steve

PS. yes the boaphile says he doesn't cool, but thats with his BCI's, not sure about the BCC's

my little boas have been living together for about 3 years, no cooling, no seperating and no heat changes, and plenty of underage breeding going on, im not hoping to breed them but can't seperate them at the moment.

Well steve and I took on the adventure of breeding our one albino male to as many possible het females as possible.. As of today we have had 3 clutches of 100% het of albinos from this male and for this season with one more due in about a month. How we did it was we would leave him in with a female for a length of time 3-4 weeks and then give him a week off and then usually 2-3 weeks with female 2 and then back to female one, unless we have witnessed a shed or a major swelling of the females, and then another week off and back with female two... it was a huge mess and i guess we were just lucky but this is what worked for us in November and i hope it will work for you too... good luck.

Sincerely,
Rose Hipskind
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www.srsnakes.com

Thanks Rose, Congrats to your success! Andy

the thing is...people do it all the time, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it...but if your male isn't a "stud" in the bedroom, your second clutch could be heavy with unfertilized ova.

also...cooling IS important...but not as important as proper body weight for the female. the combination of body weight and cooling seems to be the catalyst for the development of ova.

fred albury gave me this advice - he values barometric pressure more than cooling...and i'm starting to agree with him, based on behavior i've witnessed during thunderstorms...

a period of seperation is essential.IMHO.

i have never found photo period to play a signifigant roll...that is...other than the naturally occuring photo period change in my hemisphere.

i hope this helps...keep in mind that a hundred people could tell you a hundred different things....and they could all be right and wrong at the same time...

chris
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www.chrisolsonreptiles.com

Thanks Chris