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You can candle the eggs to see if they are viable.
If they look like "eggs" and not brownish, clearish, collapsed, etc. then they might be live eggs. To candle, you get a tiny flashlight(think like those cheap little LED flashlights) and hold it to the egg(turn the lights off to see better). You should see veins, or if the eggs are far along, you may even see babies moving about.
Where are the eggs? If you left them in the enclosure and the female is not still wrapped on them, I would think they are not viable, since the female usually instintively will stay coiled around them. It's very hard to be sure that the temp/humidity are right in the enclosure with the adult though. If in something to incubate them, you'll want to make sure the temps and the humidity are strictly controlled because if the eggs get too hot or too cold, or aren't humid enough, you can have deformed hatchlings which would be quite horrible to have to witness. Baby snakes can hatch out with kinks in their spine so bad that you'll have to euthanize them and trust me, it's terrible.
If you have removed the eggs, most people will give the female a bath(rinse, really) and then change the bedding in her cage. Then she should be ready to eat fairly quickly. If she has eggs, or thinks that she still has eggs from the scent, she won't eat.
The most probable reason your male doesn't eat well is because he's stressed from sharing an enclosure. I would advise looking up the caresheets on this site to see how to best set up a good enclosure for EACH of your snakes.
Theresa Baker
No Legs and More
Florida, USA
"Stop being a wimpy monkey,; bare some teeth, steal some food and fling poo with the alphas. "
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