The reason for now is just that I have no time left! All my spare time is being put into my other hobbies (training my puppy for dog sports... which turns out is a lot more time and specific efforts than just raising a pet dog!)
But I totally might try again in the future, when my dog is a mature adult and isn't as time consuming.
I had tried breeding for a clutch a year and a half ago. I was just looking for the experience of breeding, incubating, seeing the little guys pip and then selling them. I also already built an active audience on another site and a couple friends who were interested in buying from my clutch, so it would've been sweet!
The female and my male locked at least 8 times and she never ovulated with me. That said, I still have no idea how to feel for follicles and wasn't sure whether any behavior I observed was developing follicles or just coincidence. Then I sold her for a fairly cheap price to "a breeder" in about March or April 2017 considering she locked with my BEL so many times... and she ovulated 1 month later! LOL.
Turns out the guy didn't even have an incubator and obviously was not a breeder. I can not roll my eyes hard enough.
He got an incubator maybe a week late, and the clutch turned out funny looking! A few BELs and a few odd colored snakes that weren't identifiable as a morph, or definitely were unknown genes. Someone suggested it might have been due to the poor incubation in the beginning and causing defects in their coloration. I actually kind of wish I bought one of them just to see how it would've developed.
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