My snake laid one dodgy looking egg a week ago,but laid it it on the cage floor ,not in the lay box,i figured she must not have liked the lay box so i changed it for another that gave her a bit more privacy,2 days later i found 6 more good eggs and 1 more dodgy looking one,since then she has continued to spend all her time in the lay box,i offered her a small mouse 2 days ago which she took(she had refused food all through her gravid period).Today i decided i`d remove the lay box,she was still buried in the soil and i found 2 more healthy looking eggs buried about an inch under the peat moss & not visible from the surface, that`s a week after the first one and five days after the next six(they were`nt there when i fed her two days ago.Perhaps she was egg bound,i don`t know, i `m retrospectively surprised she ate two days ago if she still had eggs inside.Is this a relatively common occurrence or a bit unusual.She`s still a young snake and has only bred once before(last year she laid 8 eggs in one go).she`s the only egglaying snake i`ve ever bred so experience here is limited..
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EGGs & Time Delays/Patterns
- Thread starter Robertk
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Susan
Go Ahead, Make My Day!
Just to be safe, continue to watch her and look for any more eggs. While most females will lay all their eggs over a reasonably short period of time, I have had a few females take awhile to finish laying. More often than not, there are slugs (usually before &/or after the fertile eggs are layed) involved in a "long-lay", but not always. Last year, one of my females took 18 days to lay all of her "eggs" (all slugs). The longest time one of my females took to lay a clutch of all fertile eggs was 8 days.
dionythicus
Kiss My Hearse
So it can be normal to go more than 24 hrs without laying the other eggs? I can still see them in there.
Not sure how normal/common it is but it certainly happens,my snake`s just taken a week to lay them all and the last two are perfectly good i`m not sure but it may be more common for delays in egg laying to be associated with subsequent slugs rather than with more good fertile eggs.Definitely don`t give up hope though,you might be pleasantly surprised like i was when i found two more good eggs 5 days after the first batch.