Natural Birth

I was wondering if anyone here had ever let their females incubate there own eggs and what the results were? Thanks.

6 eggs out of 6 hatched, 2 pastels, 4 normals...

and did you keep the cage just as you normally had it or did you warm it a bit more where she was during the time?

She was in her rack system, no changes in any temps, just a bowl of water and papertowels.

thats really cool and i often wondered why more people did not try that. i understand the whole "control" issue, its like a ocd thing but i think it would be really neat to let nature take its course and see what kind of results you got. i am sure most people are not willing to try that with a large collection but it would be a interesting little experiment.

I did it as my experiment. I wouldn't have a problem doing it again...

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Originally Posted by FL0OD

thats really cool and i often wondered why more people did not try that.

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The whole better control of the eggs thing and getting the females back upto size a lot faster.

remember, if they are incubating eggs, they are not eating

thank you ladies and gentlemen, i will take that into account if i decide to do this.

I think that it's great that people have successfully, maternally incubated their BP eggs. I personally use an incubator, because I like to get the females eating soon after laying. They just seem so thin and empty after they lay their eggs! But obviously in the wild, they live through incubating of their eggs.. and people Do do it in captivity. It is just my preference to use an outside incubator and get my girls fat and sassy as fast as possible. Kudos to those who maternally or artificially incubate successfully!

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Originally Posted by patthesnakeman

remember, if they are incubating eggs, they are not eating

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Actually, they will eat when feeding.

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Originally Posted by RKO

Actually, they will eat when feeding.

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Originally Posted by RKO

Actually, they will eat when feeding.

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wow that came out wrong

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Originally Posted by RKO

Wow, damn right it did.

I meant they will feed while covering eggs, so I hear...

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Have you actually experienced this yourself? If not, perhaps you could share with us who you "heard" this from. :)

RKO, my apologies. I was trying to edit my post in which I quoted you and somehow clicked on the wrong box. I've in my fumble fingered way hard deleted the post from you I just quoted above. Please know this was not intentional and I apparently need more coffee this morning LOL. Again my apologies RKO.

No problem.

I'm pretty sure I've heard it on Bob Clark forums. Or Constrictors forums. One of the two.

Here's a thread I made documenting the maternal incubation process of my female ball python in '06...

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=33496

thats super cool of you to have done that. i think i am going to let my normal do the same thing this year and i will let every one know how it goes when and if she gets that far. thanks again so much.