Allowing females to brood

[anatess]

All I meant was that I think it would be hard to maintain the right conditions. They of course can brood them themselves as snakes have for millions of years and they do it well or they wouldnt be here.If you have the option to incubate why wouldnt you? On the other hand, you could filet a fish with a machete but it doesnt make it the best way to do it or a good idea. You would probably get more meat off the bones with a filet knife. Catch my drift.

No, it's not hard to maintain the right conditions. It's the same conditions you've been maintaining your snake in for all its life. If you have a hard time maintaining the regular 80/90 heat and the regular humidity (like when you're using a display glass tank), then yes, this would be hard for you. But, if your snake is living in stable conditions, then it's not any harder to let them brood it themselves.

Now, those of us who attempted maternal incubation have different reasons for doing so. I, myself, went the maternal incubation route because I trusted the snake to know the proper conditions of the eggs more than me. I didn't trust that I could properly get an incubator going (too wet, too dry, too hot, not hot enough, etc. etc.). With maternal incubation, the snake does all that work for you. All you have to do is maintain the snake like you've always maintained it before.

And, about the fish analogy - for me, using an incubator would be like using the machete...

But the reality of the thing is - the debate on maternal incubation versus artificial incubation is the exact same debate as feeding frozen or live. One is not better than the other in a general sense. One is only better than the other when taking into consideration your individual situation. For some, maternal incubation is the way to go, for others, artificial incubation is it.