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well more like lay eggs saftly? i think i have 2 girls and my frend has a male he lives in birming ham and i wanted to know how big like 3 ft or 2 1/2 or what he wanted to know the same things 1 of my snakes are 18 inches and the other is 12-14---his is like almost 3 feet

I just bred my female for the first time and she was born in 2002. It usually takes two to three years for them to reach breeding size. i did not want to breed her too young or too small. Also make sure she is not too thin either.

trust me im keeping them in tip top condition my snow (the larger one) i want to get probed to make shure that its a female and my frend is geting his probed soon to so im just hoping i can do this mostly do we need to hibernate them this year cus my snow is geting biger faster and so is the other

I can usually tell by loking at the tails. there is usually a very obvious difference in their tails. The female tails look like they got pinched. Go from fat to thin very sharply. male tails taper slowly to a point.

I once caught a gravid female corn snake in Dade Co., FL that was only 18 inches long and laid 6 viable eggs. I have caught corn snakes near my home in LA (where the commonly get over 4 ft)that were gravid at 22 inches. I think it is more a function of age rather than size. I don't believe in power feeding and bring my snakes along slowly. They are usually ready at about 4 years.
Jim McLean