Is she ovulating?

Shes been paired with my pastel a lot! But just now she's been showing signs. I found her in her water bowl yesterday but I didn't get a picture. But heres some of her size. And that is a little bit smaller than the average house phone.

http://i40.tinypic.com/9lbujm.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2q8c5rq.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/vcqr9j.jpg

looks to me that she might be building but i dont think she is ovulating just yet.

How heavy is she? Looks pretty small if that's a 32qt tub.

how can you tell if she is ovulating? i've read many articles concerning ovulation but i can never seem to actually tell if a snake is ovulating or not :salute:

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

How heavy is she? Looks pretty small if that's a 32qt tub.

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Agreed. What size is that tub?

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Originally Posted by indigochild

how can you tell if she is ovulating? i've read many articles concerning ovulation but i can never seem to actually tell if a snake is ovulating or not :salute:

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You can tell she is ovulating when you open their enclosure and it looks like they swallowed a small football. There is a very obvious localized swelling at doesn't last very long, but it very noticeable. Once you see it, there is NO mistaking it. ;)

I would have to say that it doesn't look like an ovulation to me.

Here is a pic of an ovulation... http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/.../ovulation.jpg

what if you feed your snake rats the size of footballs? :rolleyes: because i feed my snake once every 2 weeks and they always look like they have just swallowed a footbal. should i downsize the meals? just in the breeding season?

most of my females tend to slow down on eating and yes i would not feed her to large of a meal even my 3000+ girls i feed only medium rats i just offer them more than one i had one girl eat 4 med rats. i dont force food on them when they finish one completely i offer them another.

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Originally Posted by dmaricle

most of my females tend to slow down on eating and yes i would not feed her to large of a meal even my 3000+ girls i feed only medium rats i just offer them more than one i had one girl eat 4 med rats. i dont force food on them when they finish one completely i offer them another.

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i do the same but still dont know if its ov or not... my girl ate 2 sm rats and 2 med yesterday and i found this today

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...iminal/ov1.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...iminal/ov2.jpg

:please::please::please::please::please:i hope that its what it looks like :please::please::please::please::please:

that just looks like you fed her a lot, doesnt look like an ov to me
take a look at this thread it has ov pics http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...threadid=84898

That picture just looks more than a a bit disgusting. Also looks like she has a good possibility of regurgitating. WHY would you feed her FOUR medium rats? A medium to me is 100g+ a pop, which equals 400+ grams of food. No Ball Python needs that much food, especially if you're thinking she's about to ovulate or is gravid. You'd kill her. I might feed a 6ft, 10lb boa that much.

Snakes that are overweight have a hard time developing follicles or even ovulating. Most times they just reabsorb the follicles. Definitely slow down on the food intake or she's not going to do anything, or she'll end up regurging and there goes money wasted and a hurting snake.

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

That picture just looks more than a a bit disgusting. Also looks like she has a good possibility of regurgitating. WHY would you feed her FOUR medium rats? A medium to me is 100g+ a pop, which equals 400+ grams of food. No Ball Python needs that much food, especially if you're thinking she's about to ovulate or is gravid. You'd kill her. I might feed a 6ft, 10lb boa that much.

Snakes that are overweight have a hard time developing follicles or even ovulating. Most times they just reabsorb the follicles. Definitely slow down on the food intake or she's not going to do anything, or she'll end up regurging and there goes money wasted and a hurting snake.

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actually i had said 2 sm and 2 med but was a mistake on my end but when i realized what i had typed it was to late to change. but she ate 2 weans and 2 smalls on the 14th. the weans weighed in at 32 grams and the smalls werent much bigger than the weans 42 max. so were only talkin bout 148 grams here which is a normal med rat.

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Originally Posted by 771subliminal

i do the same but still dont know if its ov or not... my girl ate 2 sm rats and 2 med yesterday and i found this today

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...iminal/ov1.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...iminal/ov2.jpg

:please::please::please::please::please:i hope that its what it looks like :please::please::please::please::please:

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Looks like an obese snake to me. :colbert:

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Originally Posted by Wh00h0069

Looks like an obese snake to me. :colbert:

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may look like it in that pic but shes far from it ill post new pics of her in a cple days
this is her in july at 1109 and was 1400 in jan
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../1/8/new_1.jpg


btw shes in a bigger tub in that pic

When a snake ovulates the swelling is in a certain area, when the whole snake is big she is either overfed or obese.

Most snakes wont even look at food when approaching ovulation and probably hasnt eaten in a while. Now there are exceptions but I have never had a snake eat when ovulating for at least a month if not 2.