Quote Originally Posted by Brandon Osborne View Post
Robin, I think it's just a myth to keep people behind in the game. I've bred females at 18-20 months with great results. I think size is the important factor when breeding. I've had plenty of females breed at 20-30 months old and have clutch sizes grow year after year. Just have to keep them feeding and feed them as much as they'll eat when they do.
i posted a thread about an in depth study of ball python populations in Ghana a while back, part of the study was measuring and weighing females who had produced eggs and were incubating them. The results showed females were between 1200_1800 grams with many of them below 1500 grams (if i remember correctly). I know it is a wild study and the pythons are just doing what instictivley comes to them so are reproducing sooner, but it shows at what size females can produce eggs successfully. And i believe more eggs would come with age and size, thats just nature doing what nature does best.