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I'm not entirely sure whom it was that was looking for this info from me when the time came, but here it is. The topic was breeding females who were either 1500g and/or two years old, whichever cam sooner, and the viability of their eggs, if at all. Well, I just had one of my 22 month old females, who weighed in at 1920g lay 8 eggs; 5 good, 3 slugs. I also have a 20 month old female pastel who wieghs in at 1780g in post-ovul. shed right now. I'll keep you all updated.

Did you power feed these snakes? How often, how much, and what did you feed these snakes? Pretty impressive. Thanks.

-Mike

Define "Powerfeeding". In my opinion, This "Powerfeeding" bandwagon that everyone is jumping on is a load of B.S. I have females who will eat what they want once a week or so, every 4-5 days until about 10 months. Is a female who eats every week powerfed? I think not.

What I was asking for repeatably was success rate. You have 2 that are producing for you and that's great. You'll have pastels a year earlier than most who entered the breeding season with 1.5 year old girls. If you're selling the offspring, you get a better return on your investment in the female, still great! If you're building up a breeding colony, you'll have several thousand dollars worth of animals in your project a year earlier, all good things. What I would still like to know though is this is 2 out of how many? I did state that the intestinal impaction X-rays I saw may have been due to husbandry and too cool temperatures, and that potential was confirmed by an anecdotal referrence posted by another forum participant. I have several females that could still be pushed up to size by November and am interested in the potential success rate if I should choose to do so. I would really like to know how many 1.5 year old females you attempted to breed this season. Thanks.
Paul

Paul, it was s slow year for me, I only bred 3 females this year, one was a 9 year old LTC female who, ironically, did not take. The other three were all in and around 19-23 months. One has already given me eggs, one is in her post-ov. shed, and the third should be going into shed very soon.

I mean I guess I think if you use the logic you got eggs so it must be ok leads me to think I can use the logic that a 14 year old human girl can have a kid, but it's not healthy to do so. Just a thought.
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Rob Talkington

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