What has been your biggest clutch of ball python eggs ever?

Whats the biggest YOU'VE ever produced???

Last year Bertha laid a 1262g 11 egg clutch for me!

2 years ago i bred spider x normal 13 eggs 9 outta 13 were spiders

Back in the late 90's I had a huge female that dropped 12 eggs for me. I could not remember her weight but she definitely was big around as my fore arm. I do wish I still had her but when college came I ended up giving her to a good friend that still has her to this day as the family pet.

14 last year(also my first year)
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14 with my first ball 2 years ago, and her first time as well.

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Originally Posted by merdcme

14 last year(also my first year)
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WOW!!! What was the pairing on that clutch!?

I thought I did good with 8... lol

My biggest ever was Eleven but my average is still around six. I remember seeing pictures one time of a clutch of 17.

First year. Breeding ... 2 clutches both six eggs.. Waiting for one more hope to get more since she is a big female ;) :please:

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Originally Posted by demjor19

WOW!!! What was the pairing on that clutch!?

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pinstripe x normal. got 6 pins and 8 normals. this year she has been locking with my mojave pied male.

My biggest was 9 back in '08, from a ~3300 gram girl. Most of the time, I get 7.

9 from a 3300 gram girl? thought that size would have a ton more.. my last 1500 did 8.... Are the eggs bigger then by that size ball and the babies fat??

The eggs were a pretty good size. The babies averaged around 70-75 grams each at hatching, but that's about average for me. The past year, that same female produced 7 eggs again, but these things were huge! The hatchlings averaged around 80-85 grams each.

Those are BIG babies.. :D

Yeah, I think the babies could have taken rat pups right from the start! LOL I offered rat pinks for the first couple of feedings, though, then switched to pups pretty quickly. The good news is, the 7 huge eggs had 4 spiders!

nice. my last clutch had 8 eggs. 5 spiders 1 paster 2 normals.. didn't hit the odds on a bumble x normal.. lol My boy was spider crazy..

First year breeding last year. 2 clutches, 9 and 8 :D

Total - 9 enchis, 4 males, 5 females

Largest clutch to date was produced in my first year breeding: 13 eggs. Every single one hatched into a healthy baby--11 pastels and 2 normals!

7 from both my 2500 g girls last year. Both had huge eggs. Babies came out anywhere from 70-85g. Big babies.

My max is five, but since this is my first season, I'm not complaining! :D

I had 8 last year which made my biggest, and I had 8 again this year, but I'm far from done this year so I could possibly break my record. I avg 7 eggs though.

10 eggs last night,my Pinstripe girl bred to my Bumblebee male:taz:

We had an imported 5000ish gram Sub-Saharan female lay over 20... I don't remember the exact number, it was a while ago. Bigger clutches for us are usually around 12-13 eggs, with an average of 7-9 or so :D

My first clutch ever was 12. Pastel yellowbelly male to 2700 gram normal female. I got 0.5 pastel yellowbelly, 3.2 pastel, 1.1 yellowbelly. No normals in the clutch. 100% hatched with an average of 76 gram. This years she is up to 3700 grams:)

So far 7 and that girl was 2,000 grams

Hey, Mike, do you know anyone who's currently working with those Sub-Saharans (or are you working with them yourself, still?)
I'm thinking about trying to track some down next year.

Five!

Coincidentally, my smallest clutch is also five!

When thinking about big clutches, you have to factor in snake length as well as mass. No matter how fat you get those females, their oviducts will only carry so many eggs per lineal foot. :)

I've had at least one 17 egg clutch; might have had bigger ones but don't have the records at hand at the moment. Out of curiosity, I bred the female who produced 17 eggs in 2003 the following year and she produced 13 eggs in 2004. I've not bred her since.

A female I had who typically weighed as much as the 17-egg female but was 6 inches shorter never produced more than 14 eggs. And the mass of the 14 eggs was as much as the mass of the 17 eggs.