Does anyone think my female is Gravid?

I've thought she was before and been wrong. Also she was a bit more agressive than normal, she struck at me (has never done that before, not that she gets handled a lot)

She is 2166 grams, and looks fat to me (maybe she is just big boned :) ) and even looking fat, you can see her spine a bit.

Just wondering what others think from looking at her, and if others have noticed females getting cranky when they have eggs :).

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It's hard to say with her balled up. but possibly. One thing to look for is a prominent ridge back. Her spine will form a very sharp triangle shape just before she lays her eggs.

It can be really hard to tell unless you catch her ovulation. I had four females lay this year, and only one of them was I sure she was going to.

Gale

She looks a little ridge backed in the last photo but that isn't any kind of a confirmation. Is she staying on the hot or cold side? Have you caught her layting inverted much? Has she had any sheds out of her normal cycle? Other than that it is just a wait and see game. Good luck.

I've seen her on both sides. Hot last night cold this morning. She is normally in one of the hides so I don't see her laying around a lot. I had seen her on her side in the hides but that was about a month ago. I have not been keeping track of sheds. I had 3 others lay so far this year, but normally just find eggs. :). I did try to open her up a bit but that is when she started to get annoyed so I put her away.

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I've seen her on both sides. Hot last night cold this morning. She is normally in one of the hides so I don't see her laying around a lot. I had seen her on her side in the hides but that was about a month ago. I have not been keeping track of sheds. I had 3 others lay so far this year, but normally just find eggs. :). I did try to open her up a bit but that is when she started to get annoyed so I put her away.

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If she had ovulated already, I would expect her to be staying mostly, if not exclusively on the warm side, but laying inverted and such to regulate the egg temps inside. The fact that you say she is going back and forth could indicate that she is just building and has not ovulated yet. Is she still eating regularly? Have you tried putting her with a male and witnessed any refusal or disinterest. Again, these are all possible indicators but not guarantees as some snakes simply don't follow any of the rules. That's the beauty of them. Again, I wish you the best of luck.

Yeah, still eating like she normally does. I have tried putting the male with her, and they have not hooked up in a while, but then he has not in a couple months with anyone, so I don't know if it is him that is not in the mood. :)

I know it is not a perfect science, and was just wondering if anyone else thought she looked large :)

It can be hard to tell sometimes. What I look for: food refusal, staying on the warm side, male refusal, and unexpected weight gain. If she looks a lot bigger, but hasn't been eating it could be eggs. Have you tried holding her up at all? Be gentle about it, but pick her up and let her hang straight down. Sometimes you can see the egg bumps, especially as they move down her body as she gets closer to laying.

well I guess this answers that question :)

http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...d/img_4064.jpg

and she ate less than a week ago (for that matter, my het pied female ate while she had eggs in there before I found them, she came out to eat and I thought she looked skinny)

Congrats papa. Keep us updated.

Congrats! That's really cool. As I said, some of them just don't follow the rules, (case in point). Looking forward to some pipper pics in about 60 days or so.

she had a death grip on those eggs. I was almost afraid she was going to squeeze them too much.

Haha nice ! How many eggs? They look big n healthy!

7, and so far they all look good. Should be some albinos in there.
she is a het, and the male was an albino.

I was going to say yes, you can tell by the way the shape of their body changes, circular to triangular you can tell in the last photo really well


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I thought so too but so far I have not been too good at telling. Eggs have just been a surprise.

Congratulations..keep us updated :gj:

They started piping yesterday and I cut them ad at first thought I was doing pretty good with 5 out of 7 eggs that were albino.

http://www.1bad69.com/gallery/pets/s...011_164009.jpg

then I saw 2 albino noses sticking out of one egg, albino twins!! :)

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Sweet!

Congrats!! Keep us updated!!

Btw thats a gorgeous het albino girl you have there

All but one het popped out of the eggs

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so I rinsed them off, put them into separate containers and started counting… I had 7 eggs, and saw 2 heads coming out of one of them (I saw it better than the pic, I saw 2 full heads coming out of one egg), so I should have 8 babies. I only had 7!! I’m tearing the house apart looking for it. I weighed them all, thinking that the twins should weigh significantly less. They all weighed 78-82g! So now I’m confused, at least one should have been lighter and I have no idea how one could have been lost. Then my wife figured it out. I dug the eggs out of the trash to confirm. Two of the eggs were stuck together and the one from the bottom went through its egg, then INTO the one stuck above it, then came out of that one!!

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So I guess no twins, but at least I did not lose one in the house!

Lol that's so funny. Man that albino tried to pull a fast one on you. What a little joker

They are all gorgeous little worms!


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Oh wow that is so funny! That little snake was determined to get out of the egg! He should be a strong little guy cutting through 2 eggs like that.


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