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Unexpected eggs.

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str3ck

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I've had my girl for about 10 years and she's never laid any eggs. Woke up this morning to her laying eggs. Now I know that sometimes they will lay a clutch of slugs and that's no big deal, but look at the picture. There are already 5-6 eggs that look like normal healthy eggs.

She's never bred and never before laid any eggs. I know some snakes can lay healthy eggs without mating, but from all the research I've done today, it's not something Corns do. Do you think I should try to incubate the healthy looking ones or just toss them all. I'll have to throw together and incubator if i want to try. If I had one sitting around already I'll give it a shot without a second thought.

Sorry for the image size being so big, I'm on a borrowed computer and couldn't scale it down.

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My girl Cleo did the same thing at around the same age--9 or 10--and they were all slugs. (It's actually what brought me to these forums for the first time.) Some of them, like some of yours, sure looked like they could be fertile so I tried incubating them with no success. After a few days, it became clear they were infertile and they rapidly started to rot.

I bred her two years in a row and saw her fertile eggs were very different--they were all bright white, all laid at once, and stuck together. I retired her from breeding and this year she once again laid about 12-15 slugs, some convincing looking (I was wondering if she had retained sperm, but no), but again they were laid over a period of several days and did not stick together.

Looking at your pics, it does look like she laid them all at once and some do look promising. It won't hurt to take the best looking eggs and put them in a tupperware container with some spaghum moss...incubate them for a few days and see how they do. :)

That said, I'm seeing this post is 2 weeks old so I'm curious how the eggs are now. :)
 
They don't look fertile to me, but it never hurts to practice. If you decide to not keep them, freeze them for 24 hours before discarding them.

I'd expect her to do this again next year. You can prepare by giving her a lay box about a month earlier. I have a snake who lays at least one clutch a year, no matter what. She started before she was even bred. Now she's been bred twice, years apart, but continues to lay eggs on her off years.
 
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