Aborted ova

Hope you have better luck with her next year. :( I guess she just wasn't ready to become a mother yet...

Definitely interesting and unusual, if quite sad. Hope she's doing ok! Anything unusual about her behavior since you paired her/since this happened?


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Wow. Let us know how she's doing in another week or two, please?

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Originally Posted by LooptyLoo

I'm sorry :( Is she doing okay?

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She seems fine so far.

15 months old and 1600 grams? How do you even get a snake that big in just over a year? This snake was way too young to breed. I'm sorry but that isn't even close to two years old! I've never even heard of anyone breeding a female that young. If you didn't think anything would come of it, why do it? I just can't get over breeding a snake that young.

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Originally Posted by Lorgakor

15 months old and 1600 grams? How do you even get a snake that big in just over a year?

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Feeding them well? It isn't really uncommon for them to put on ~100g a month..

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This snake was way too young to breed. I'm sorry but that isn't even close to two years old! I've never even heard of anyone breeding a female that young.

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She hadn't even been paired up yet when she started growing those follicles, so I believe that my pairing her up for the first time a few days ago is just a coincidence and is not really relevant.

And just because you "never even heard of anyone breeding a female that young" doesn't exactly mean squat. I've seen many people state that they do just that right here on this forum. And I know of a few that have paired them up at right around a year old and not even 1200 grams. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and whatever guidelines you pulled your "omg she's not even two years old!" line from is just that. A guideline. Deviations can and do occur. I bet you'd be shocked and amazed at some of the things that go on behind a few of the bigger breeders' doors.

:( That sucks. I had something really similar to that happen. My girl was 3 years old and was being bred when it happened. I tried breeding her again last year, but she didn't take/lay. I'm going to try again this year and see what happens. I don't know if it was a fluke or if this will be a reoccurring issue. Not a dang clue.

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15 months old and 1600 grams? How do you even get a snake that big in just over a year? This snake was way too young to breed. I'm sorry but that isn't even close to two years old! I've never even heard of anyone breeding a female that young. If you didn't think anything would come of it, why do it? I just can't get over breeding a snake that young.

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I had a female spider lay at 20 months. She was over 1800g before she was even paired. She was not power fed, she was actually on the same weekly schedule as two other girls that were the same age and closer to 1100g. She just grew like a weed.

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Originally Posted by spitzu

I bet you'd be shocked and amazed at some of the things that go on behind a few of the bigger breeders' doors.

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Not shocked at all.
Stupidity doesn't shock me much anymore, smh.

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15 months old and 1600 grams? How do you even get a snake that big in just over a year? This snake was way too young to breed. I'm sorry but that isn't even close to two years old! I've never even heard of anyone breeding a female that young. If you didn't think anything would come of it, why do it? I just can't get over breeding a snake that young.

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My Mojave got to 1000g in less than a year. And not even a year later she got to 2200+ g....

Lots of breeders breed their females once it reaches 1000-1200g. It doesn't matter if the snake is a year old. While I don't partake in or agree with that practice, many big breeders do....

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