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Double Clutch???

Pal-O-Mine

Pal-O-Mine

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Please explain double clutching to me. Do you breed the snake twice in one season or does the female have two separate clutches from the same male or what?????? Just curious.

Devon
 
The female lays another clutch the same season, right about the time her first clutch is hatching, whether you want her to or not, whether you breed her again or not. Sometimes, even if she is a virgin!
 
Nanci is correct and has given you the physical definition of the term but there is more to it than just that though. You can increase odds of double clutching with feeding regimes and reintroduction of males at the proper time and so on. Lots of variables will control if the female doubles and then how viable those eggs and clutch size will be.

dc
 
I've never done anything special to encourage double-clutching - some of mine do, some don't. They're all on the same feeding regime and breeding schedule.

I think it may be an inheritable thing - if they come from females which routinely double-clutch, then they're more likely to double-clutch themselves.
 
I'm happy if they don't double clutch. Although I wouldn't have minded a second chance at a plasma stripe this year.
 
Isn't double clutching really hard on a female? Does she lay fewer eggs? Are the babies smaller? Do you have any more DIE than a first clutch?
 
The second clutch tends to be smaller in number, and is often more likely to have dud eggs. And yes, double clutching is hard on a female, but some will do it no matter what. My babies from the double clutch have so far been the same size as the first clutch.
 
I don't think I would say double clutching is _really_ hard on the female, if she was in good shape to begin with. You don't have a lot of time between the first and second clutch to build her back up, though.
 
Pal-O-Mine said:
Can you double clutch from TWO different males? Or is it just from one male??

Devon
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I was wondering the same thing so I thought I'd bump up the question. 2 of my female corns have double clutched without my reintroducing the male 3 yrs in a row and the second was duds. So if they are gonna do it anyways would it be better to introduce a male as to not chance egg binding with dud eggs ( I've heard egg binding is more common with duds than fertile eggs) and having said that is is usually retained sperm when there are fertile eggs when some of you have second clutches that are fertile or are u reintroducing the male or a new male?
 
You can introduce another male after she lays the first clutch but if it was me I would introduce one that will give you different looking babies because you may have retained sperm and I personally don't want to play who is your Daddy. But yes you can do it.
 
Oh yeah every year. Last year I had 10 babies on a 2nd clutch without reintroducing the male to the female.
 
Who knows but if they are prone to double clutching and you are ok with having more babies I would reintroduce them. Could just be no retained sperm?
 
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