How many eggs you produce this year?

[MegF.]

41??!!!! Incredible! Was there anything left of the poor female once she got all those out of her!?

 

[Jay@PJCReptiles]

We had 108 eggs in the incubator before some have started to pip/hatch and are still waiting on one more clutch from the "first" set of clutches of the year. These were produced by 8 females and we were very lucky in the fact that we have only had 3 bad eggs out of all of them. We already have a couple of the girls in blue waiting to drop their "second" clutches of the year. Not all of the girls will double for us this year, nor did we want them to, so we are looking at for between 150-170 eggs in total this year. :crazy02:
Jay

 

[rolandslf]

41 Eggs

MEG You are right. Shewas in very bad shape but a course of vitamins and pumping the feeds restored her.
Needless to say, I will not be breeding her this season, I feel that I should allow her another year of recovery. A repeat of last season could kill her.

Ciao

 

[antsterr]

I had one '05 who I knew was gravid lay 20 eggs and one slug. My other '05 I didn't know was gravid, I thought she had always rejected the male so I'd been taking her out and showing her at places and handling her a good bit around the house. I really feel quite bad now, she dropped 13 good eggs and 8 slugs. I'm thinking it probably had something to do with my holding her having her so active right up until after he prelay shed. I knew something was up because she was cruising around non-stop in her cage and sleeping in the hottest areas of the viv, the same behavior I witnessed in my other gravid one before she lay. AS

 

[MegF.]

I usually handle my gravid females all thru their pregnancy to avoid egg binding. I think exercise is good for them as long as you don't overdo it. I doubt that the slugs were due to the handling. I've had zero slugs in any of my clutches yet, and all snakes are taken out and handled regularly until they lay. In the wild, they are most likely moving about more than that as she looks for food to feed those developing eggs.

 

[cornmorphs]

i only have 30 or so at the mo, but still have about 8/9 females that could lay.. done things very late.

 

[Serpent2007]

first clutch of 15 eggs dropped 2day not a slug to be seen

 

[tbtusk]

This is my first year, 17 good eggs. Hopefully I may have as many as 3 clutches next year, but definitely 2. We'll see how selling goes this year.

 

[dionythicus]

4 clutches this year...

1. 17 eggs...one went bad, 16 healthy babies
2. 26 eggs...three were slugs, 3 DIE, 16 hatched and four to go
3. 18 eggs...12 slugs, 6 hugs eggs should be pipping any day now
4. 19 eggs...should hatch mid-July (double clutched on her own last year)

 

[CaptBogart]

with so many people breeding and corns producing so many hatchlings a year, do you think we should be worried about a saturated market? what happens when all the people who want corn snakes have one? Does anyone worry about this or are us people who are breeding a small enough minority that we don't need to worry about it?

I thought about this, in a way, when I decided to start breeding... I say in a way, as I didn't want myself to be over saturated with just Corns, so that's why I have Kings, Rats, and Milks as well. I figured with a little something for everyone, in small amounts, it won't be too difficult to sell what I produce without having to wholesale... That said, I have 20 Banded Miami's that already hatched, with another 11 Corn eggs, (Lavender Mot X Silver Queen Ghost), in the incubator, 4 eggs from the het Albino Hondos, 7 eggs out of 10 from the het Albino X Hypo Hondo, with the het Ghost X het Ghost Hondo clutch yet to be laid.
The breedings that didn't work out were the Axanthic X Hypo Floridana , Axanthic X Axanthic Floridana, nor the het Albino Emoryi X Emoryi and Candy Cane X Lavender... Or my little incubator would be stuffed right now... Which has actually been a blessing, as work has been really hectic, so I actually have the perfect amount this year... but next year? a little more than double the attempts this year... and I already started turning a freezer into an incubator to hold them all....

 

[Joejr14]

I selected the 100-300 option.

I've got 93 eggs in the cooler right now, with at least 2 more clutches to go. I had one female essentially slug out on me, as well as a few smaller than average clutches. I figure that I'll be around 120---which is 30 or so off from my guesstimate of 150 before brumation.

The scary thing is that if I push all of the females that I currently am growing up, I could easily add 6-10 more females and clutches onto that. From my averages, that would be something like 80 more eggs.

We'll have to see how hard it is to get rid of these hatchling this year...

 

[Mark Dwight]

You need to add just one more catagory...1000+ Totally insane breeder. That way, Rich can vote.

Do you know how many eggs Don has every year?
No catagory crazy enough for that. :crazy01:

 

[diamondlil]

2 out of the 3 that made it this far have hatched here

 

[cornmorphs]

i only have 30 or so at the mo, but still have about 8/9 females that could lay.. done things very late.

probably about 100 now in all.. still got a few that might lay, but not likely.