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I've heard of boas being bred as young as 3 1/2 years for females and males as young as 1 1/2 years, and I've also heard people say that 4 or 5 years may still be too young for a female to breed. I understand that a lot of it depends on the size and weight of both the male and female, but I just wanted a rough estimate on when would be a good age to begin breeding.

I've also been reading a bunch of horror stories about less than successful litters (many stillborns and slugs) and was wondering how often these type of things actually occur. I understand that I need to do much more research when it comes to breeding boas, but I'm fairly confident that a few years down the line when I actually begin my own breeding attempts that I'll be able to at least provide the proper environment for a successful litter. Assuming that everything seems to be good, what are the chances that I could have a litter with few live snakes? thanks.

I also wanted to add that I'm not planning on power-feeding my snakes, I can only see more bad than good coming from that.

your right, but as far as breedable snakes I'm not sure what you meen by that so I will give you two versions of an answer, one if they are mature enough they should be able to breed, two if for some reason they are steril it would be impossable to know that untill bred. also you are better off getting snakes from other breeders to ensure 100% unrelated pairs or groups, a lot of places say they have unrelated pairs but they only had one litter? so.. you have to go by your judgement and the reputation of the person or persons you are buying from, uunless you don't mind inbreeding which for the first generation or to is somewhat ok.

hope that helps,

Nick

np

ive heard of females being ready to breed at 2 1/2 years, I belive its more size than age and some develop faster than others.