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86 Days After Post Ovulation Shed and we got EGGS!!!

i've got a female who ovulated on April 2nd. I am 100% positive that she DID in fact shed, because i distinctly remember telling Dave (my other half) to stamp it down. He forgot. D'OH!! but...today is day 84 post-ovulation, and no eggs yet.

note: Quiet Tempest pointed me in this direction from my thread at ball-pythons.net, which can be seen here.

while it's comforting to know it's happened to somebody else that their female takes this long, it's still very worrying!

you got some nice eggs, and i'm keeping my fingers crossed that you get some albinos!
 
SquamishSerpents said:
i've got a female who ovulated on April 2nd. I am 100% positive that she DID in fact shed, because i distinctly remember telling Dave (my other half) to stamp it down. He forgot. D'OH!! but...today is day 84 post-ovulation, and no eggs yet.

note: Quiet Tempest pointed me in this direction from my thread at ball-pythons.net, which can be seen here.

while it's comforting to know it's happened to somebody else that their female takes this long, it's still very worrying!

you got some nice eggs, and i'm keeping my fingers crossed that you get some albinos!
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I was watching another similar thread thread from fauna and here are the links.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243152
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=249157

SPJ also had one go 78 or 79 days if I have it counted correctly. This has been a very weird year and yet being my first year having eggs it too has had me worried. But I hope your girl goes soon and thanks for the good wishes. They are returned 10 fold!

Preacher
 
SquamishSerpents said:
since we forgot to stamp down her POS, we don't know the exact date, but my female went today! 85 days after ovulation.
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Well the wait is finally over, NOT. :D Now you get to count down another 55 days. I forgot to ask what are you pairing in this breeding?

I did some looking to see how long a ball python can hold eggs and found this article.

http://livingartreptiles.tripod.com/id42.html

I do not think any of us set out to prove this but with three people having females go 78, 85 and 86 days POS it gets really close to the 120 day max stated in the write up!!
 
wow, 120 days!? it doesn't sound like that was actually observed, but more of a generalization.

Brian Barczyk said he's never even had one go 85 days, but stranger things have happened i guess.

the breeding was Normal female x Mojave male.

and yes, now that she's laid i can hurry up and wait. 55 more days...sigh. at least i have another clutch of corns that should be hatching in about 5 days. that will tide me over for a little while.
 
I've been busy and just now had a chance to get back to this thread~ but I just gotta say....

Y'all are right! I've been doing this for a number of years and I haven't even tried to look for veins in fresh eggs in.....well....now I'm trying to remember if I ever looked in fresh eggs or if I always just believed there would not be any for a week or two. But~ thanks to this thread I checked both my recent clutches and there ARE veins in them the first day. Wow....guess its true your never too old to learn something new!
Thanks all!!

BTW~ I had one go long a couple years ago~ don't remember exactly how long but I think it was about 75 days.
 
Cheryl, thank you for the response! I agree you never stop learning if you go at life correctly! And that is one reason I like this forum I get to glean knowledge from so many really knowledgeable people.

Good luck with the two clutches.
 
THERE HERE!!!

Today is day 54 for this Long awaited for clutch. They began to collapse on day 43 and I was actually contemplating cutting them yesterday because two of them have me worried, but I decided to wait until today. I opened the freezer I have made into and incubator and opened the lid of the egg container and guess what I saw!!
 

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Congrats!! You got an albino! Yayyyy :)

My clutch that took forever to be laid has went completely bad I fear:( the 17th is day 52 and the one goodish egg has crumpled A LOT. I've never cuteggs before, should I open it up and see if it's alive?
 
Thanks everyone, I have had a stinker of a season with only three clutches out of nine breedings. One clutch of six had four slugs and the two nice eggs died during incubation. The other a het to het pied clutch of four eggs hatched out three and one that only weighed 28 grams died six days after hatching.

I was very glad when I saw the one piped yesterday and an albino to boot!! A second one was sliced but they did not come out until today and when I looked in the egg container I could see four of the five and the fifth one is sliced but not out yet and I am very well pleased with what I have found.

I will post more pictures tomorrow after the last one finally comes out I hope and then once they are all out of their eggs.
 

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Well, it certainly does appear this clutch will help make up for some of the others! Look at all the albinos! Awesome!
 
Well everyone decided to come out today and they all totally reabsorbed their yoke sacks. The eggshells were completely empty except some prenatal fluid and the light membrane from around the eggshell. If I popped them correctly we have 1.1 66% hets and 1.2 albinos. What a way to end a season, PTL. Hope you don’t mind pictures these are my first morphs and I am very happy!! Enjoy! I will post one more time after they shed. Thank you everyone for letting me share my first successful season with you. Unfortunately, after ten years here in Lebanon as often happens in Ministry we may be moving and I will probably have to down size considerably if not completely sell off my collection, I hope not, but the next three to four months will tell the story.
 

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awww congrats, they look like healthy little stinkers!

i think they deserve their own thread! can't wait to see post-shed pics.

not to detract from the beauty (and lucky odds) of your babes, but so far (as stated in this thread) we've had one female go 85 days between ovulation and laying.

and now, we have a SECOND female who ovulated on June 2nd. that makes her 76 days past ovulation. WHAT THE H - E - DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS is going on!?!?

(update on the first clutch, all 3 eggs died :'() found the last one DIE today. a spider, very severely kinked. the other DIE looks like it could have been a mojo. so we possibly had a multi-sired clutch, hit morphs on both, but all died.

sometimes it takes really tough skin to be a snake breeder.
 
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