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When to start heating up adults for breeding

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phoolishcactus

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I just got heat for all my adults. I am tired of waiting for mother nature to cooperate with the weather. When do most of you start heating your breeders? How long before you start feeding females, most of my males don't eat till after sex. Does it really matter when you start? Does the heat start the process?
 
Well... What I did this year and will be doing, as this is my first year of breeding is I brumated my adults for 2 months from mid november to mid anuary, but that's just because that's what is convinient for me. it doesn't really matter when you brumate them, or when you wake them up. you can wake them up in the middle of winter as long as you have the correct heating and lighting (although I don't really wrry about lighting).

After that 2 months I just turned the heat back on. A week after that I gave them their first meal, which was half the size they normally tak. After they successfully took that I just went back to a normal schedual and tempature.

My male, although I did not personally brumate him, i just got him right as he was waking up, took food right after brumation, just as Aurora, the female I brumated did.

Hope that helps.
 
when to start heating for breeding

If this is your first year breeding, you have no idea when they will do the spring shed, do you?
I have an albino greenish rat snake that ovulates very early. It was suggested to put a male in there as early as I thought she would ovulate...Last year I put the male in her cage about this time but saw no action for a few weeks. I am hoping the heat will get her back to "normal" and she will lay eggs that don't go bad. Last year she laid 17 eggs but only 7 hatched.
Relying on mother nature has always had the males breeding without eating and the females eating very little before becoming gravid.
Last year I ended up with 30 babies to sell and only sold one. This year I hope to have babies in ready to sell in the early fall instead of December. The market should be better then.
 
I put mine down in mid October and bring them out in late December. They are breeding by late January and i have eggs in Feb. I have had them on this cycle for 3 years now- that being said it is hard to know when your female is going to ovulate. You could bring her out now and she might not ovulate for months..or...she could go right away. I always opt for shorter brums. so that i can make sure they are up to weight and health at ovulation time.
 
phoolishcactus said:
If this is your first year breeding, you have no idea when they will do the spring shed, do you?
I have an albino greenish rat snake that ovulates very early. It was suggested to put a male in there as early as I thought she would ovulate...Last year I put the male in her cage about this time but saw no action for a few weeks. I am hoping the heat will get her back to "normal" and she will lay eggs that don't go bad. Last year she laid 17 eggs but only 7 hatched.
Relying on mother nature has always had the males breeding without eating and the females eating very little before becoming gravid.
Last year I ended up with 30 babies to sell and only sold one. This year I hope to have babies in ready to sell in the early fall instead of December. The market should be better then.
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Were you refurring to me? Phoolishcactus said his males wouldn't eat till after sex, so i assume he has already bred corns.

For me, my female, Aurora has already shes, though i am on vacation and my arents are caring for the corns, so I can't do any breeding this week. I think Aurora is ovulating just because s=her bellie feels very soft and squishy (not like fat) and her sides are much more rounded than normally. I can't feel indavidual eggs, but I hear that's hard to do befre breeding.

I don't know about Raya, the other female, but it is clear that Aurora is ovulating. I think, I'll learn a little more about my particular females after a few more seasons.
 
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