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Feeding maternal incubating female
Do you feed MI female while she is on her eggs? When you offer the first meal? I havenīt found an answer to this 
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Re: Feeding maternal incubating female
 Originally Posted by Heini86
Do you feed MI female while she is on her eggs? When you offer the first meal? I havenīt found an answer to this
You have not found anything because almost no one does maternal incubation. I know I don't. From what I have heard very few females will eat while they are on the eggs. Won't hurt to offer though. Let us know if you try it.
Last edited by JodanOrNoDan; 04-03-2017 at 02:02 PM.
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Re: Feeding maternal incubating female
Iīm definetly going to try. Not sure though, if it be wiser to try to lure her away from the eggs to feed...
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If I was to do it I would show her a ft. If she showed interest, i would leave it in for ten minutes. She can decide if she wants to leave the eggs of not to get the food.
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TacticalVetrinarian actually posted a video of feeding a maternally incubating snake mamma!  She had apparently eaten 3 times while sitting on her clutch. It seems down to individual snake in this case; you can offer, but don't expect miracles.
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Nope. I have done MI once, my experiences were as follows:
I didn't feed her after she laid the eggs. She never left the eggs, as such she never went looking for food, so I never offered her food.
I didn't clean her tub at all the whole time she was around her clutch. I did change the water. Before she laid the eggs I gave her extra bedding as well as some moss mixed in with the aspen.
When the eggs hatched, one had gone bad. Because I went to check, she crushed one of the hatching babies, killing it. When I realized I removed her and placed her in another tub. The rest of the eggs hatched without problem.
Long term, the 2 snakes from the same egg failed to thrive. The rest were fine.
Ball Pythons 1.1 Lesser, Pastel
1.0 Lesser Pastel, 0.0.7 mixed babies
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Re: Feeding maternal incubating female
Thank you for the advises  I think I give it a shot end of the week.
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So my other maternal incubating female ate today at day 36 
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Re: Feeding maternal incubating female
Originally Posted by Heini86
So my other maternal incubating female ate today at day 36
Awesome. This is going in my notes for future reference.
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