This is my first year breeding snakes, ive got a life time of breeding everything from chickens to dairy cattle but snakes is new an im excited to start this year i have picked up some young males to raise and 2 breeding females one for next year but i started with my banana enchi and spider to get into it right away wasnt cheap to jump in this fast. So i started pairing my male an female in Oct and was pairing them atleast once a month until last month as i was unsure if my male had a RI thats another topic but the female went off food awhile ago an the male went off almost right away. They locked every time visually saw it. I dont have any way of taking an ultra sound how can i tell if shes building i mean she looks thick for eating for a month or two and when i am putting her back i let her slither back into the rack and feel her belly as she does and the last 1/3 of her feels like there may be some lumps like eggs but i cant tell for sure, ive watch video lots of them but size can be hard to judge on a screen so im not sure if she is build like ones in the video for a bit she was near the cool side and stretched out an around the water dish some but now shes on the hot spot and shes going into shed could i have just missed the ovulation and this be the pre lay shed? when i bought her the breeder said she tried pairing her with a pied but never saw a lock so im wondering if maybe that triggered her into the building of folices and as soon as i started pairing she was ready for him like i said i started in Oct and paired 1-2 times a moth up til beginning of Dec.