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Eggs of a 1 year old corn

bamboe32

bamboe32

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Yesterday morning mine 1 year old cornsnake laid 7 eggs.
1 off them does not look good, but the other 6 are all nice white.
The size off those eggs are around 1,5 cm width en 4 cm long.

I did not know that it was possible for a one year old snake to get eggs, so I did not separate it from the males.( 1 * 1 year and 1 * 2 year old)

She is around 80 cm and her weight was 150 Gram 3 weeks ago and 170 Gram 1 week ago without any food in between.

The female is still resting, but just ate a small springer mouse.

According to the cornsnake manual page 50 the eggs are sized normally. (1.9 - 3.8 cm in length)
Is this correct, are the eggs of a 4 year old female not bigger?
Or is the width to small to be fertile. (page 49 of the manual)
Anyway I keep them at 29 Celsius(83.5 F)

Does it happen more often that a 1 year old female get eggs.


This photo shows the eggs, in front the bad one.

Here tho photo of the one year old female
 
You were lucky!

Females that young can sometimes become egg-bound...which is a life-threatening emergency! You should not put her back in the same enclosure as the males. They will possibly try to breed her again. That could also kill her because

1) she is so young
2) she needs to regain her body weight.

I have a 5 year old corn who was underfed by it's previous owner. Last year she only weighed about 150 grams but was 3 foot long, and she had a clutch of eggs (8 of them). She did fine.

The eggs look fertile to me except for the one.

Oh, I forgot to answer about the egg size. I think bigger corns tend to have smaller eggs because they produce MORE of them. A snake with 30 eggs in it doesn't have room for them to be so large. This is just my opinion. I do not know if this is factual.

Good luck with the eggs!
 
Does this mean that it is nessecary to split males and females which are not even one year old?

Is this only needed in the spring / early sommer, or for the whole year.

What me wonders is that you read about this for two year old corns, but never for one year old corns.


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Rob.
1.0 Quadrivittata '00
1.0 Snow '01
0.1 Amelanistic '02
1.0 Normal '02
 
Yes...

males and females should always be separated unless they are intentionally being bred. And there have been LOTS of posts on this site regarding egg bunding and corns breeding early. Try doing a search to find out more info.
 
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