08 Female Weights???

I look at a lot of KS listings and see a lot light weight 08 balls. How much do your 08 females weight?

I have an 08 female spider that weighs 800+ grams and an 08 female cinnamon that weighs 900+ grams

I got a female bee that is 500 grams. Most of my 08's are in that 100-500 range

I have one 08 female. She hatched at the beginning of september. She is 345g.

I have one that is still 100+ grams, but she is a runt.. And my biggest 08 is around 600 grams.

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Originally Posted by pauletto

I look at a lot of KS listings and see a lot light weight 08 balls. How much do your 08 females weight?

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They could be late '08's. I have late one at 227g

I should have posted 500+ grams. I have three females and one male. My the females are 600g, 500g and 230g. The males is 450 grams. I kinda was thinking my 08's seems over feed for there age after looking at animals on KS.

Mine is a late, late '08. I was also underfeeding her when I first bought her. I was fearful of giving her bigger prey. I'm over it now, and she's growing like a week :D

I have "08 bps from 180g all the way up to 800g.

my girl was hatched 3 rd december 2008 ,she only 138 g is this bad

i voted 500 since there were no bigger options, my girl is well on her way to 700g by now, was 600g on the nose last time I weighed her.

there is no set weights as some 08's were hatched up to 11 months before some other 08's I have a may 08 pied that is over 700 grams and I have a july-aug 08 Black Pastel that is at 330 grams so its not so cut and dry I have a pewter that is a Jan hatch or 09 and Im sure that if I get a apr-nov 09 hatchling that my pewter will be heavier

There are many variables, hatch date (whether the snake hatch early in the year or later), weight out of the egg, how fast the animal got started, how big of a prey they are being offered and how often (some breeders offer food once a week some do once every 3 to 5 days)

I have a female that just weighs in at 120 grams (here is why http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=88610 ) while her clutch mate weighs 3 times as much.

And I also have a female over the 500 grams mark.

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Originally Posted by supercinnamon1day

I have an 08 female spider that weighs 800+ grams and an 08 female cinnamon that weighs 900+ grams

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I forgot to mention that the spider was born in july and the cinnamon was born in june!:)

My Biggest '08 is around 500g, my smallest is 260g. And everyone else is on the higher end. If I were to buy an '08 right now, personally, I think I would try to shoot around or above the 400 range unless I knew the breeder and knew more history (Hatch date, feeding). The First question I ask about babies is hatch date, the I go from there...

I have a June hatch Mojave at 900g so I chose 500g

So those of us who have the 08 girls on the larger side of the scale when do you plan on breeding them?

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Originally Posted by supercinnamon1day

So those of us who have the 08 girls on the larger side of the scale when do you plan on breeding them?

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in their 3rd winter like every other year that would make it 2010-2011 season

We have female 08's from 150 grams to 900 grams, depends on hatch date, prey and how fast they got started.

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Originally Posted by supercinnamon1day

So those of us who have the 08 girls on the larger side of the scale when do you plan on breeding them?

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Probably around December

My July born pastel is about 8 hundo

My november het albino is 336 grams as of 3 hours ago.

Mine is only 136 grams...

My 08 females all weigh between 500 and 750 grams.

I have a little lesser male that has not missed a meal hes around 450-500 grams :D

I have 3 late 08's all weighing from 195 grams to 250 grams. All feeding approx. every 5 days.

I have female and male 08's above 600 and a few in the 750-950 range

My late 08 should be in the 280 range this coming week. Looking foward to watching her grow up:banana:

I do not have an 08 female but my 08 normal male is 650 grams and my pied is 450.

You need an 800-1000 gram option.

polls like these really dont prove much ive seen snakes a year old be around 1300 grams and ive seen them hardly grow at all. the big factors are how much they are fed and how often. also many other factors

I cant really choose any of the poll choices! my early 08 female weighs over 900g

I only have two 08 females (very late 08s) and they both weigh 500+ grams. I have an early 08 male that weighs 700+grams. I've noticed that too on KS. I suppose it's because they either only maintenance feeding or trying to get rid of the picky eaters.

I have 4 08's All are feed every 7 days
Male Pastel is 750g
Female Pastel 800g
Female Spider 800g
Male Black Pastel 550g (hes a little picker of a eatter but has been better lately)

I really there weight take off when I switched them all over to rats instead of mice.

my 08 albino is about 540 grams, and my normal 08 is like 300 grams. the albino is FAT! my normal had a stubborn start T.T... but hasn't shown any signs of slowing down after i gave her a 10x better enclosure =p.

I have 3 '08 female pastels.

As of 06/25, they weighed:
632 grams
643 grams
and 473 grams--but she is a mouser.
I also have a normal female '08 on hold for someone that was 495 grams on that date, and she is also a mouser.
I feed on a 5 day schedule.


For contrast, I have a pastel male '08 who was on a 7 day schedule, and he was STILL 505 grams on 06/25.

All of the above animals hatched around August last year.

I've seen the light '08 balls you're talking about all over too, and I have to wonder if they're really picky eaters, or the people were trying to save bucks by not feeding them. As you can see, almost all of my animals were off your poll's scale except for the two mousers--and there's a good chance that they're all off it by this point.

Even on a 7 day schedule, being fed small items, the animals should be weighing in at 400 to 500 grams at least by now. I've seen a bunch advertised that were only 275 to 300 or so. That just seems so SMALL to me--an indication that something is either not entirely right with the animal, or isn't entirely right with the keeper. (A difficult starter, for example, would lead to a weight like that--so would mousing, and picky eating, or just plain not being fed enough).

I've had a male axanthic from June 08 for less than a month. He weighted 296 when I recieved him. That seem very much under weight for him. He was realy skinny... He was being feed 1 mice, Im not sure why.

The first thing I did was to see if he would eat rats, and he did thankfully. He had never eaten a rat before according to his feed sheet. He has been eating every 4-5 days. He is gaining good weight now. And he already looks alot different than when I recieved him.

My July 08 girl weights in at 655 grams right now. Every 7 day feeding schedule of small rats. I havent got a 100% empty weight on her recently though. 655 was a few weeks ago.

i have one that is 1670 grams empty from august of 08,every 5-7 day feedings.she started breeding october 07, 09. the smallest 08 female i have is a spider that is 900 grams. dave m.

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Originally Posted by Auletto

I look at a lot of KS listings and see a lot light weight 08 balls. How much do your 08 females weight?

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All of the above....

My female 08s are all around 600 grams. My 08 male ph is around 600, and my 08 male pastel is about 500 grams. My 09 spider is already 200 grams! :D

I've been blessed with good animals, except for one little runt but I won't give up on her because I'm not in a hurry to beed. :)

Back to the question though. I've got a 0.1 genetic-stripe that weighs 1200
grams - she hasn't been powerfed at all. She has been eating on regulary scheduele without asking any question.

http://www.thereddragonsden.com/avgweight.htm

remember this is just an average..

A few 08 weights...
May 08 male black pastel 700 grams
Jan 08 female black pastel 1375 grams
May 08 male yellow belly 900 grams
Aug 08 male black pastel het hypo 725 grams

i have 0.1 08 spider.. she's 1760-something empty and she's just now begun to eat kinda sporadically. But she is a monster, she's surpassed my 07 female by 300 or so grams.

3 08s i have are at 901g,1220g,884g

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Originally Posted by SPJ

You need an 800-1000 gram option.

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agreed:D
I have an '08 spider female and she weighs 1600 grams.
and both my '08 pastel females are 900+
I have an '09 het pied female that is 620 grams so there definately needs to be some bigger options:P

I dont have any 08 females but i have a 09 pastel het ghost and her sibling a female het ghost and they are both over 250g only fedding once a week hatched in july

all mine are now over 1000 to 1300 grams & are getting bred!!!!as I write this!

'08 Yellowbelly hatched in June - 2000+ grams
'08 Spider hatched 13 June - 1650 grams
'08 Butter hatched 07 June - 1300 grams