Okay, so me being as curious/nosy as I am, often times when I'm browsing breeders websites I'll look at breeding/hatching records, just to see what their year was like and what they produced, etc... I just can't help but notice at least two breeders who's sites I've gone to (and I'm not going to name names) seem to have very very high slug rates. Like entire 12 egg clutches being all slugs... And I know this can happen randomly and sometimes we don't know why, but going down the list I'm seeing female after female after female slug out her entire or the majority of her clutch... and it honestly makes me a bit concerned for their animals. Enough so that I don't think I would buy from them, and that's fine... I don't need to buy from them. Plenty of other breeders I'm comfortable about doing business with.

I guess my question is, what can cause such high rates of slugging out? Breeding females too young? Over breeding? Obesity of the animals? Breeding excessively small females? Maybe they moved their collection or something and the stress of it caused the pregnant females to slug out? I don't want to have a bad opinion of these people, at least without first hand experience, but I just can't see it as a fluke when such a high percentage of their clutches are completely or majorly slugged out.... there just has to be something wrong somewhere. Ideas?