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I have posted a post quite far below and I though I should ask again, I wanted to ask whether it is a bad idea to breed boa constrictors this late or is it possible?? If I did would the babies survive??

katie
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thanks in advance

Are you talking about your baby Hog Islands? Aren't they just babies, less than a foot long?
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0.1 Hog Island Boa Isaboa
1.3.0 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.4 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John & Helmut Newton
1.1.0 cats Gus & Mena

No I am talking about my 10ft Boa Constrictor. Can you help??

katie
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thanks in advance

Sorry, no. I was just following your posts below & was checking on what animal you were looking to breed.
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0.1 Hog Island Boa Isaboa
1.3.0 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.4 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John & Helmut Newton
1.1.0 cats Gus & Mena

Ok if anyone else has anything they can tell me?? Because I would really love to breed my beautiful boa.

katie
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thanks in advance

Mood lighting and Barry White on the stereo won’t help your snake breed if they are past their season. Snakes breed during a specific breeding season and will not have sex just for the fun of it (only humans and chimps do that, it’s good to be a primate!!!) So it is up to your snakes as to whether or not they will breed. If they do then as long as you provide proper care the babies would be fine. I have included a link to an article the was in the Nov 1996 Reptiles magazine on breeding boas. It was written by Jeff Ronne “The Boaphile” and has great starter information. For even more info you can order Jeff’s video on boa breeding. It has all the info you could need and last I looked it was around ten bucks or so, not bad seeing that you don’t even have to put the effort forth to read a book on it now LOL. A nice step by step guide on video.
Also the article appears on Jeff’s website (where this link will bring you, so if you feel the info was helpful you might want to drop him a e-mail and thank him for keeping space available on his site to help others in their breeding efforts. It is a good guy that would help others produce animals that may one day be seen as competition to his own business, but Jeff is a herper’s herper and I have always found him willing to help out. Here is the linkwww.boaphile.com/article.html
Good Luck
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is around $50.. and i think hes making a new one possibly on DVD.
Suppost to be better quiality in sound and picture

Personally I did not think the Video was worth the price... I was hyped up to see some good stuff by the way everyone used to speak of it on here - i was rather dissapointed... good info but still left wanting more =)

Thanks, I just read those 13 pages you told me to read. But this didn't answer my questions. My boa was with a boa last year that was around 6 foot, he died a couple of weeks after we bought him and we had a couple of males before that but they all died. Do you think the female boa killed them or something?? Anyway, my boa is quite fat and eats a rat a week do you think I should try breeding her??? And if I do keep the male with her until he is uninterested should I not feed her after that or before????
Also the care sheet said that I should leave the neonates where they were born, then where am I supposed to put the mother??? I only have one big cage for her.
Also how big a male should I put in with her, I don't want her to kill another one if she is doing this??

katie
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thanks in advance

I think that if you have boas that are willing to breed in this part of the year its totally fine to do. some folks have late litters and as long as your husbandry stays consistant all should go fine. just mind your temps and so forth.
james c.
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