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I have an eleven foot two year old female retic and was wondering if there would be any negative side effects if I breed her this winter?
Any advise would be apreciated.

Wolsniw, I like that name- it in mine in anagram- winslow

anyway, a great lecture was given at on of the Mid Atlantic shows a few years back by Frank Retes who strongly felt that natural selection for most reptiles encourages young well fed females in proper condition to breed as soon as physiologically possible. Young females of some of the more temperamental species are more likely to throw slugs or potentially get egg bound but this has not been my experience with Retics. Plus if you artificially incubate the eggs, your female if well fed can get back into breeding condition again pretty fast.

I have bred my dwarf retics at just under 3 years of age, and if your girl is the size you say, eating like a champ, then why not try introducing a male as long as you definitely want to breed her. Do you have the time and space to store and start her babies should you have a hatch? do you have an incubator, more importantly, do you have a responsible outlet to sell/donate the babies to good homes?

I think that when dealing with giant constrictors, we have an obligation to think beyond the thrill of simply breeding as the babies are a bit of a liability to sell as in the wrong hands they get big and sometimes unwieldy to handle in captivity.

Winslow AKA wolsniw?

I typed in winslow for my user name but it had already been used so i just reversed it. anyway, I've taken into account all that goes into breeding them (incubators, housing, feeding, and selling the babys to responsible people). I'm gonna to start cooling the female in the next month and try to breed them shortly there after. Do you have any tips for breeding the in winter as opposed to fall?
Thanks for your response to my first ?