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Hey all,
I know you have to burmate before you can breed corns, but I have a breeding pair that I wasent going to breed till next year. But I was told by one guy at a show that you can somtimes do it with out cooling. So I tryed it, and they climbed on top of each other, follwed each other around, and started raping there tails, but then they stoped, and the male climbed off, and all day they have been going back and forth. If they do breed what are my chances of a fertle cluch of eggs? Well thanks for any help.
Philip

Well, some people choose to brumate their snakes, which gives the snakes the inclination through climate change that it's breeding season. However, there is nothing wrong with breeding them without the snakes having been brumated. In my opinion, if they breed, whether or not they were brumated doesn't really matter.

Mostly people brumate for secondary reasons other than for the snakes sexual well-being, it seems. It's usually around the holiday season that people put their snakes away and give themselves a much needed break for a couple of months. =P

Also, in the Corn Snake Manual, Kathy Love states that the sperm and ovum production increases while the snake is in hibernation. I guess because the snake can actually take the time to develop those systems instead of diverting key energy sources towards hunting, hiding, etc during the normal season.

Well, funny story really happened with my breeding pair. My adult female escaped on me last July, and over-wintered somewhere under/within my house..and I found her outside in my flower bed in March. I don't know if she really hibernated, or stayed warm enough to stay active throughout the winter months. It took a few weeks for her to get receptive enough with my adult male to actually breed with him. And that was almost a month ago that their last intended breeding took place. Right now she's looking gravid and close to shedding. So we'll see how her first attempt at breeding was, and how many fertile eggs I get out of it. =)

Here's a pic of her last week, she's getting more cloudy and her skin is starting to show between her scales.

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I bred a first time pair of corns with no brumation this year and got 17 good eggs and no slugs.
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cooling is probably a good idea, but I didn't really know I would be breeding this year, and my first time mom and dad gave me 12 beutiful babies I'm sure there are resons for doing it, but it's not the only way to make them breed
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Dianne
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I have a pair of '01 corns that I intended to breed in '04. They were large enough to go this year though, and both of them went off of feed, so I took the advice of some fellow herpers and put them together. They produced 13 good eggs.