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My female alterna will be 3 in July, weighs just over 300 g, and is over 3 feet. Is it ok to breed her this year or should I wait a year?
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Kent

Yes that sounds great as long as her and her mate were hibernated/brumated properly. Without brumation the eggs will probably be infertile.
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They were brumated for 4 months. I put them together a couple of nights ago and they began courting immediately. I left them together for 24 hours, then returned her to her own cage. I will feed her then put them back together.

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Kent

Four months is a good brumation. Usually my female graybands do not ovulate or accept males' courting until after their second shed out of brumation even though I always start trying after their first shed. For that reason I keep putting them together until the females are obviously gravid. Good luck and please keep us posted.
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I have had the pair together off and on from March 19. I never actually witnessed copulation, but there was lots activity at times.

She has had her second shed of the year, and one meal since. They are now uninterested in each other, in fact the male took his first big meal in a couple of months.

She has been constantly cruising her cage the last couple of days, and is not hungry. Today I set her up in a 40 gallon breeder tank with a lay box full of moss, and a dry hide. She has palpable eggs, and is very squishy feeling, but her spine is raised on the lower portion of her body. I think she still has a few weeks until her pre-lay shed, but I am not sure.

I have been doing this for several years, but they still surprise me with how they behave differently.

I can only hope he got the job done, and the eggs are fertile.
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Kent

They look great, do you have a locality on them, or who you got them from.
Bob B

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R.Bichlers Colubrids

The male is a 2008 Hwy 349 from Robert Palaez. The female is his 2011 daughter from a generic Blair's phase female.
Here is a pic of her mother. Wish I had kept her.

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Kent

>>The male is a 2008 Hwy 349 from Robert Palaez. The female is his 2011 daughter from a generic Blair's phase female.
>>Here is a pic of her mother. Wish I had kept her.
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>>Kent
Hi Kent, I remember that picture, nice snake. I have a few F1 females and a male from Robert myself, the parents were from the 9-10 mile markers, East of Sanderson. It took 3 years to find and acquire the male. inspecting offspring this year from them.
Bob B

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R.Bichlers Colubrids