Rat snakes from the American West tend to lay larger, fewer eggs than those from the eastern United States. A good example is seen in my Hueco Canyon suboc eggs, laid yesterday. The photo compares them to a single yellow rat snake egg from my four-foot female. The suboc is about three feet long.



This is the Hueco Canyon female's first clutch, so not surprising it wasn't very many eggs. She produced four good eggs and three infertiles. Making eggs this size takes a lot out of a snake. She started eating the day after she laid her eggs so I hope she recovers well.



Suboc eggs incubate for a long time, and I anticipate hatching sometime around October 20, possibly as late as early November.

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• suboc egg size - 53kw, Thu Jul 14 12:53:52 2011
• RE: suboc egg size - randywhittington, Thu Jul 14 19:05:12 2011
• suboc incubation - 53kw, Thu Jul 14 20:46:18 2011
• RE: suboc incubation - randywhittington, Thu Jul 14 22:45:01 2011
• RE: suboc incubation - MikeMurphy, Fri Aug 19 09:07:00 2011
• RE: suboc egg size - mingdurga, Fri Jul 15 10:49:33 2011
• RE: suboc egg size - randywhittington, Fri Jul 15 11:21:11 2011