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Proper Recommended Breeding Weights Male and Female

greatinspirational

greatinspirational

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I am a novice breeder that experienced success this year with a pair of well established older snakes. I purchased quite a few new morphs this year. I have 2 males that are 2011s - I know they could be borderline for breeding this year but seems hard for me to believe when I compare the size of them to my adult females. This is making me wonder what you veteran corn snake breeders use as guidelines for healthy breeding weights for males and females. Im not looking to rush them into it. I want to wait till they are without a doubt ready to produce healthy offspring
 
For your first season, with females (at greatest risk) I'd go with the traditional guidelines on minimums - 300g (of muscle not fat), 3 years old, 3 feet long. Once you've got the hang of breeding and figured out how well your females hold up, you'll find these are tweakable to suit the individual snakes. But doing that does take experience and it's best to get a season or two under your belt before taking additional risks. It's always good to understand risks before taking them on.

As for males, I tned to just make sure that they're of a comparable physical size to the females in case things get a little rough. They're fertile from quite an early age - I knew someone from another forum who had a 10 month old accidentally mate and sire fertile eggs. However Corns hit maturity around three years old, so below that you do potentially have lower fertility and you might get a few more infertile eggs. Don't think anyone's done a study on that yet though.
 
I always hear the 300 grams and 3 foot rule but the fact is some female corns never reach that size. My best looking okeetee was 4 yrs old before I bred her and she was still only 250 grams. She had been that weight for close to two years. I also had a hypo fire stripe breed this year at 260 grams and laid 17 nice big eggs and it didn't even pull her down that much. I do agree that for beginners it's best to stick to the 300 gram 3 ft rule but as with everything else there are going to be exceptions.
 
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