Have you had a female lay and not go off food?

Some one said on here that if a female doesnt go off feed then she wont lay eggs. So have you personaly has a female eat the whole breeding season and still lay viable eggs

Yes. More than one of my females has eaten. One almost always eats right up until laying the eggs. I'd swear she would be swallowing a rat while squeezing out an egg. Ball pythons are individuals and they love to make us tear out our hair.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

...Ball pythons are individuals and they love to make us tear out our hair.

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But we love them all the same. Ball pythons to me can have a wide range of personalities. every one of my balls is the there own. right now I am just watching this new ball I got. see if I can figure her out. She is a huge female I got for $75 from BHB... 2200 grams and pure muscle... This girl almost checked me while I was getting her cage ready.

I had two last year that ate through the whole process up to about a month before laying eggs.

Up to a month before isn't the same as right up until laying...I think the OP is asking about females eating right up until they lay, as in the same week they lay. So, they're eating after ovulation, which your female apparently did. It sounds like your female stopped eating after her pre-lay shed, however.

I've never had one of mine eat after they began 'perfect coil' laying over the heat, and refusing the males.

I don't allow my females to eat after ovulation, so I don't plan on finding out if they will eat right up until laying :P

I have 2 girls eat right up to ovulation, the rest tend to go off feed about a month before ovulation or right around the time of the pre ov shed. Any girls that go off for too long I will offer live mice to, even the girls off feed can't resist a mouse normally. I normally feed rats with ASF's filling in on the smaller snakes or the ones that won't eat F/T if I am out of appropriate sized live rats. So on the rare occasion they get mice, they almost always take advantage of it.

3 out of 5 girls that have laid this year so far stayed on food. I actually have more girls keep eating for the majority of the time then ones that go off feed. The ones that go off feed usually are my fall breeders but this year its been a little different. My spring girls tend to eat well and my summer girls do as well. I dont cool my spring and summer girls and that might have something to do with it.

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Originally Posted by snake lab

3 out of 5 girls that have laid this year so far stayed on food. I actually have more girls keep eating for the majority of the time then ones that go off feed. The ones that go off feed usually are my fall breeders but this year its been a little different. My spring girls tend to eat well and my summer girls do as well. I dont cool my spring and summer girls and that might have something to do with it.

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Does that mean you do cool the fall girls?