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My sunglow female is currently in the process of laying her second clutch of the season. I just checked on her and it appears that she passed an egg with the oviduct still around it. I had the same thing happen about 5 years ago with a Cal King, and the situation resolved itself within 30 minutes or so. That King went on to lay the rest of her eggs and bred the following year with no complications. I'm not trying to make light of the situation, as I have no doubt this is a very serious condition. I'll keep you posted on how this female corn fares.

Any thoughts on what might cause this?

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Ronda Van Winkle
Northwest Herpetoculture

oh,

that is a nightmare! a friend had this 2 times.
he - please sit down - cut this thing!!! with a knife.
the snake is still alive and she laid eggs again!
I saw it with my own eyes and he said he did that bevore one time - also with sucsess.
after he cut this thing we saw that it would have been easy to remove it without cutting it.
so please don´t cut!!!
good luck...
I just pray every time they lay eggs that nothing like that happends to me!
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Hi Daniel,

Don't worry -- I didn't cut her! About 10 minutes after I took the original photo, I checked on her again, and found that she now had TWO eggs outside her body, but inside the oviduct! Yikes! I rinsed her off with bottled water, and moved her onto damp paper towels. With the help of a sucrose solution (sugar dissolved in bottled water) and damp paper towels for gripping (oviducts are slippery when wet!) I was able to get the two eggs out. The sugar water helped the oviduct to shrink back inside her after the eggs were out. She laid two more eggs after that without incident. Unfortunately, I feel seven more eggs inside her, and I'm sure she's exhausted. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the eggs are out by the time I get home this evening.

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Ronda Van Winkle
Northwest Herpetoculture

oh good!
that´s what i said. there is no need to cut.
it´s more something like a labyrinth where the egg must find the right way - or better you in this case!
hopefuly the last eggs will go out allone!
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