My computer and Internet are back to normal at last!
(that is the 3rd router we have had to buy since getting DSL about 1 1/2 years ago!)
I get quite a few females that lay in the low to mid 20s size clutches and a number of them lay in the upper 20s - especially bigger, older females. But I only rarely get clutches into the 30s. I had one female ghost that always laid right around 32, almost always all fertile eggs. Then she would double clutch and lay another 10 - 15 fertiles, plus some infertiles, as well. She did really well until she was about 13 or so. She started looking pretty geriatric, so I gave her to a nature center for "retirement" - don't know if she is still alive or not.
This year I had one lay 37 eggs that look good - my best single clutch so far.
Back when we had a herp vet come to us at Glades every week or two, we tried various vet solutions to egg binding (he palpated and killed two females in one year, so I wasn't impressed with that!). He also used oxytocin, but said it rarely worked (it didn't, at least for us). I don't think he ever tried calcium though. I have gotten so used to my methods (removing through cloaca if close, aspirating is distant) and have had such good success, that I don't really bother with anything else at this point.
My first babies started hatching yesterday, so it all begins again NOW! Back to work!
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