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It dispels the myth that they won't eat while sitting on eggs and you have to remove the eggs to get them back up to weight after laying.
 
It doesn't dispel anything imo, it's pretty common knowledge that they will eat small meals while on eggs.
I personally prefer to control the eggs in an incubator, it's just too easy, but to each their own.
 
Jerry, there is a ton of info out there that does say that females will not eat if on eggs. :) Thanks for the pic Steve, that may help nudge me a little closer to maternal incubation.
 
BPs have never been big on reading the manuals...I think they have a marked comprehension deficit, so they don't bother. My suggestion would be not to bother trying to educate her, Steve. If she wants to eat while she's sitting on her eggs, just let her.
 
You try and go that long without eating!

While we take away the eggs and put them in an incubator we had something similar happen this year. We had checked for eggs in the morning as I normally do. The wife was starting to feed our snakes when I got home from the job that pays the bills. She had just opened the tub a little and put a medium rat in. When we were going back through tubs making sure everyone had ate, she opened the tub to find the girl sitting on a clutch of 10 eggs and the rat no where to be found! We removed the eggs and cleaned the cage with no sign of the rat ever found!
 
snakesRkewl said:
It doesn't dispel anything imo, it's pretty common knowledge that they will eat small meals while on eggs.
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Actually it's not. There is a lot of info out there stating that females will not eat while sitting on eggs. This shows they will eat. The whole, clean everything, replace the substrate, wash the female, etc to get rid of the smell of the eggs or she won't go back to feeding after laying is a misconception.
 
Well, I guess the general concensus from the forum "experts" (not just here but on other sites) is that this photo is nothing special. Sorry! I thought it was a cool picture.
 
SPJ said:
Well, I guess the general concensus from the forum "experts" (not just here but on other sites) is that this photo is nothing special. Sorry! I thought it was a cool picture.
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I do think the photo is pretty kewl, and oh boy do I understand misconceptions, the hobby is full of them....

lmao @ "forum experts"...you mean there's people that disagree with you?
I'm shocked :eek:
 
snakesRkewl said:
I do think the photo is pretty kewl, and oh boy do I understand misconceptions, the hobby is full of them....

lmao @ "forum experts"...you mean there's people that disagree with you?
I'm shocked :eek:
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I'm talking about people who saw the photo and said "yeah, so what, she's eating". These people act like there are photos posted everywhere with snakes eating while on eggs.
This girl never left the eggs. Struck, coiled and ate and kept the eggs wrapped the entire time.
I thought it was unique. Guess I'm the minority in that regards.
 
SPJ said:
Actually it's not. There is a lot of info out there stating that females will not eat while sitting on eggs. This shows they will eat. The whole, clean everything, replace the substrate, wash the female, etc to get rid of the smell of the eggs or she won't go back to feeding after laying is a misconception.
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I wouldn't say it's a misconception. All my females will not eat after I take the eggs, clean or not, for a variable amount of time. It's not until after they forget and quit searching for them that they eat again. I think cleaning helps them "forget" quicker.

I would say you can dispell that myth a little more if you take that female off the eggs, take the eggs, put her back and then try to feed her without cleaning anything.
 
I usually don't wash off the female. Last few years, I took the eggs out, replaced the substrate and fed them the next day. Only 1 girl refused for a while but she finally started eating a few weeks later.
 
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