Bad season, anyone else?

That's rough :'(

I breed pastel het clown to het clown. Witnessed locks all through november to april. Still no signs of building. Looks like she decided to take the year off.

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Originally Posted by BlckPhntm

Didn't have many females this year and yet some flopped! Had a spider female drop 7 slugs and 1 egg with veins, don't expect it to go long term. If it does, the odds of hitting the morph are pretty much slim-to-none. Also had 2 pastel females that ovulated but never went :\.

Forgot to mention the spider also rolled all the eggs around the tub -.-


Anyone else having a bad season?

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If your pastels ovulated they will lay eggs/slugs. Are you sure they ovulated?

I breed 27 girls this year....17 clutches in the incubator, 1 female slugged out, and waiting on 3 to lay. 21 out of 27 is not a bad season at all.

7 girls bred and only got 3 slugs from a virgin girl.
A friend of mine bred 8 or 9 girls and only got one clutch of 7 slugs.

We all are feeling the pain and frustration right now. :oops:

Slow year (I still have girls ovulating when I am usually done), small clutches (but all viable eggs) so small healthy clutches is better then nothing.

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Originally Posted by BlckPhntm

Didn't have many females this year and yet some flopped! Had a spider female drop 7 slugs and 1 egg with veins, don't expect it to go long term. If it does, the odds of hitting the morph are pretty much slim-to-none. Also had 2 pastel females that ovulated but never went :\.

Forgot to mention the spider also rolled all the eggs around the tub -.-


Anyone else having a bad season?

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are you sure it was a ovulation? sometimes they will swell before an ovulation. a few years ago I had 2 females that in june, they had around 35mm follicles using my friends ultrasound (before I purchase mine). they didn't lay until January (6 months later). whatever slow down their breeding cycle, did it to both of them. and if I remember correctly, they laid about a week apart. it was a hot summer, which if anything should of made them lay sooner instead of later.

a female can absorb follicles, if she ovulated then she has eggs that they don't absorb. keep an eye on her and good luck, don

Bred 25 girls this year.
One died from egg bound, was not home.
20 clutches laid, 2 fully hatched, 18 cooking.
Waiting on last 4 to lay.
Could be 24/24 if luck holds out. :banana::banana:
Best year yet!!!

Last year, over 100 slugs and only 27 eggs.:rage::rolleye2:
Take the bad with the good. It will get better. :gj:

100% sure. Palpated them yesterday and had nothing!

I can't complain about my bp season, 5 out of 8 possible females this year went for me. The only down side to that for me is my last three clutches are what should be my best ones and the first of those isn't due to hatch until daytona weekend...still though, I'll take late as being a whole lot better than nothing on the season!

Rainbow boas I'll go 3 for 3 on with two on the ground and the third not due to give birth until mid september.

Woma's I had 2 of 4 girls go and hatched 8 out of 16 eggs...only second year trying to hatch these and won't complain here either, much better than hatching 1 of 9 eggs a year ago!

Spotted pythons I had two girls go, one was a first time for her and she laid a large number of slugs...would have liked to have had more, but still happy with what I had this year.

Sand boa's look like the thing that could have really been better on. I only know for sure I'm getting one litter out of five adult females right now, although I've had quite a few late fall/early winter litters in the past, so there's still a good chance I may have more coming before the season is out.

Charlie

I think our season will be good this year, just massively late. Our first clutch is due to hatch any day, and we still have females that are gravid. Usually we are midway thru hatching by now.