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Female Deserts?

mine desert butter female eats like crazy. 10 baby got her at march. 450 g now is 700 g.

Feeds on anything offer. I feed her every 7 days 3 rat pup. I am afraid of bigger rats. My frend once came and feed her 2 small rats at once.

If I feed her that way she is over 1000 already. In 3 month she went from 450 to 700 only on rat pups.
 
mc5guy said:
mine desert butter female eats like crazy. 10 baby got her at march. 450 g now is 700 g.

Feeds on anything offer. I feed her every 7 days 3 rat pup. I am afraid of bigger rats. My frend once came and feed her 2 small rats at once.

If I feed her that way she is over 1000 already. In 3 month she went from 450 to 700 only on rat pups.
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Nice and good to hear that, do you have a pic of her that you can post?
 
A lot of people have well fed females, and even breeding size females with good weight. I think the idea that the females stay to small and skinny to successfully breed can be put to rest. However, there is still no proof of females producing healthy viable clutches. The real question is if they can reliably reproduce.
 
If Desert females tend to be slow growers and/or difficult feeders, I can see why there would be an apparent overabundance of bad clutches. Breeders tend to be less than patient, and breeding a female too small would result in more slugs, etc. My guess is that the bad clutches are a result of the smaller snakes, but we need more data in order to disentangle these two issues.
 
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