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Howdy.

I know the people in the ball python world brag about it and I've heard about it in the blood pythons as well. I know corns (my specialty) have no problem and have had success with up to 5 females being fertile from one male.

But what about burms? Does anyone have info on trios or more being bred successfully?

Thanks in advance,
-Jeff
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Jeff
MohrSnakes.com

I'm sure a male burm could breed as many females as you wanted to run by him, and each female can lay as many as 20-30 eggs on an average. My question is, what would you do with that many young burms? Have ya read the thread below on the problem they're having in the everglades with all the burms?

Quig

I could not agree more. There are TONS of irresponsible people out there who do not need a burmese and I do not intentionally sell to those people. Anyone who has seen my presentations at the Southeastern Shows knows I make a point of presenting burms in a honest way....they get BIG and only people dedicated to a big snake should purchase one. (Consequently, that makes some vendors mad...but, that's life).

The only reason I ask about the multiple female thing is I am working with granites, albino granites, and some of the other higher end burms. This year I seem to have a plethora of females and not enough males and was just curious if other people had stats on multiple breedings.

In my opinion, people are probably less likely to dump a granite or albino granite in the everglades when the initial money is significant and there are still people who would gladly take large ones for free. So, I feel a little less like the burms I produce will end up in the 'Glades. That said, however, irresponsible people sometimes have cash!
What can you do?

I think eventually a registration system may work. You need to register the snake and be accountable for it. On surprise checks by the powers running the system find you don't have the animal there would be major fines etc.

Sorry about the off original topic and meld into below topic....

still looking to a answer of my original question...
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Jeff
MohrSnakes.com

I don't doubt your intentions and I apologise if I came off that way, Just a glitch in my system I guess . I expect though, that you could put a male with several females in a season with no harm to the male. Just do a rotation thing. Put him with one female for a week and swap off to a different female every week. They may not all take, but I'm sure you would get more than one clutch for your efforts. Good luck.

Quig