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Now I'm concerned

carnivorouszoo

carnivorouszoo

Crazy Critter Lady
A month ago, 2 weeks before she went blue, I chose to breed Blood Rayne to Scarlet. Now BR has finally shed, but she is not eating, she won't accept a male, I think I feel a few small round lumps in her lower end but I can not be sure, I think She may be ovulating. But why won't she eat? She treated the mouse same as she treated the male snake when he was reintroduced to her, like he wasn't there. My husband thought it over and figured the breeder had sexed her wrong and maybe the hookup we witnessed was due to scarlet being all excited, but I had probed her before and she probed female. To put that aside I reprobed very gently, still probing female on both sides.

Do some females stop eating once they start ovulating? Should I keep trying to feed her once a week? I can offer to her first so I have others to eat if she won't so wasting food is not a worry. Another thing is my males are now eating again and not acting interested in females at all, so there was only one hookup for this female. She is 430+ grams so she is safe for breeding but her lack of appetite is concerning. Because she was bred before she shed should I give her a laybox now to be safe or?? She is currently spending most of her time under her water dish which is a kind that doubles as a hide. Her temps are good, her shed was clean.

Am I just being a worry wart?
 
You bred her, she is blue, she has stopped feeding, you feel lumps. Could she be preparing for her pre-lay shed?
 
She is not blue. I bred her about a month ago, about 2 weeks later she went blue, she shed Sunday. Are you saying that because i bred her before she shed that that ended up being her prelayshed instead of preovulating shed? She is not blue right now, she just shed on sunday.
 
carnivorouszoo said:
She is not blue. I bred her about a month ago, about 2 weeks later she went blue, she shed Sunday. Are you saying that because i bred her before she shed that that ended up being her prelayshed instead of preovulating shed? She is not blue right now, she just shed on sunday.
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I had a couple skip their post brumation shed this year and shed and laid in the aspen several days after they should have laid if it was a prelay shed. I would put a lay box in just in case. I missed the signs and was luck to check on all the girls twice a day and caught the eggs before they dried out. It seems like there is always girls that didn't read the books on breeding and do something different.
John
 
i don't brumate,but i've never *noticed* any of my corn having a pre-ovy shed. the only reason i knew my snakes were close to laying is because of their lumps, overall heaviness/swollen look to their back end, and the fact that they went into blue pretty quickly after their last shed. all sheds were on time, except when it was like WHOA you're lumpy and you're shedding AGAIN!? get out the moss from the freezer!
 
Oh see, I had bred shade right after a shed so I figured the next would be prelay, with this girl she had last shed 3 weeks before I got her so I did not think this shed would turn into the prelay. Ok will get a box in with her tonight.
 
Their shed cycle is nowhere near as organised as we think! I have had occasional ones not go through a pre-lay shed over the years. I think they were the ones where carrying the eggs hasn't made much difference to their body size/shape though, so very much the oddities.
 
Yeah this girl doesn't look different and just barely feels different when I have her slide over my fingers, though its hard to get her to do it, she tends to back up instead of going forward. . .:shugs: I have a box in with her and she is in there. I was surprised because her reaction to it when it was put in there was to his and S shape at it. Such a fussy lady lol. Thanks guys, next year though I will be a bit more organised with everything ha ha ha
 
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