reabsorb

If you came across a RTB female for sale who had locked, but then reabsorbed her follicles, would you still buy her in hopes of having her successfully drop a clutch at some point in the future? or, steer clear... ?

Yeah why not? It happens all the time, I had a female this past season absorb her follicles and I’m confident she’s gonna go this year. I recently purchased a breed ready female who also didn’t go last year!


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Yeah I totally get the advantage of a RTB female who wasn't bred the year prior, meaning she was intentionally not paired up.

But this is different. What causes a female to reabsorb? In the wild I could see that famine would cause this. But in captivity? Most breeders will offer the females that they are going to breed as much as she wants in anticipation of her eventually going off-feed.

Why reabsorb follicles? A nervous snake would do this. A skittish snake that perceives too much disturbance/stress. And this can be chronic can't it? It can be a repeating occurrence, right?

I think you misunderstood what I was saying, both females were paired and had follicles but absorbed them and didn’t go last season. I couldn’t tell you the exact science why they reabsorb their follicles but it just happens. You can’t force them to ovulate and have eggs. That’s up to them, regardless if they are stressed or nervous. Sometimes their bodies decide it’s time for an off year and they don’t ovulate and produce eggs


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It happens sometimes. Nothing that would make me avoid a sale unless it happened over and over again with different males, under conditions other females were doing fine with.