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This snake stopped laying Monday and has retained 7 eggs.

I would pop these eggs the rest of the way but I see these veins around the 1st egg and worry that the oviduct is around the egg and that it is not at the opening.

Has anyone here seen this before????

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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com
peterjolles@eastcoastcolubrids.com

see below...

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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
www.eastcoastcolubrids.com
peterjolles@eastcoastcolubrids.com

Sorry your gal is having this complication, and that i can't offer any advice. I wish the best to her hope everything turns out ok.

Wayne

I'm also sorry to say I don't have an answer for your particular situation. I had an egg-bound cornsnake several years ago that died, as the owner and supposed "snake guru" of a local pet store assured me the snake was fine and would lay eggs when she was ready. I take responsibility for the death of the snake I had raised from a neonate (and no longer listen to the "snake guru"...aka villiage idiot). I wish I had done something to aggressively intervene...anything would have been better than what I did, which was nothing. Let us know what happens with your snake. By the way, your website is awesome.

and gently move it inside the vent, between the egg and the skin, in a circular motion. The vent will relax and open. You can tell if there is any membrane in front of the egg as you touch it with the probe. The egg feels rather rough or a little gritty. But if it feels slippery or slimy, then there is membrane there, and you have to start over until you are in direct contact with the egg. At that point, you can gently guide it out (when it is as close to the vent as in that photo), both with a small amount of pressure behind, and by grasping it with a forceps to pull with a gentle twisting motion. If you get the first one out, the others may begin to move down on their own.

For more details, please read the egg laying chapter in the Cornsnake Manual or the Comprehensive Owner's Guide.

Good luck!

Swweet Pickel - let us know what you ended up doing and how it turned out...
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