Housed Bps together= babies. Doesn't matter what time of the year. This is why those eggs are now there in the frist place. Everyone will tell you the same. Now for the eggs. You can destroy them by freezing or cutting open the eggs or hatch them. If you are at all worried about caring for the little ones ie housing for each, heat for each, food for each, then doing this will make certain you don't have too much on your plate and unwanted babies. Then you can either rehome mom or dad or keep both but separate them. Immediately. Hatching is pretty simple. But please think long and hard if you can provide for those little 7 before even attempting it. Normals are slow to rehome. There's wholesalers you can sell them to but they won't pay much or rehome them for free. Either way your going to have to spend $ on the babies for at least a month if not longer. I don't sell any of my little ones until they have shed 2x and eaten at least 3-5x. That is usually at least 1month - 2 months. With them eating weekly.
So you've decided you want to hatch them ok. Many have had great success with letting mom brood her eggs, as well as incubating them artificially. If your going to let mom do it you need to turn moms hide where the eggs are into pretty much an incubator ideal temp is 88-90. With 90-100% humidity. Not sure if the humidity I gave you for maternal incubating is a little high bc I've never done this method but this is the humidity for artificial incubation. I'm sure someone will chime in if I'm wrong.
Artificial it's the same I aim for 89 temps and 100% humidity and I mix vermiculite and water in a container ie Tupperware until it clump into a snowball in my hand but doesn't drip any water. I place the eggs in the medium and pop the lid on and stick it in the bator. I personally have a homemade incubator. But In a pinch you could get a still air chicken incubator from any farm store. My first couple clutches I used one of these and had 100% hatch rate. At any rate don't take the eggs away from mom until the incubator is all set to the correct temps it'll probably take about 24 hours and set up the incubating container in it without the eggs with a digital thermometer (indoor/ outdoor type) the probe goes in the egg box and the base goes outside of the bator. This is bc the egg box can vary a few degrees from the temp in the inc and it's all about how warm the eggs are. After tne temps aee stable put the eggs kn the egg box. In 60 or so days you'll have babies pipping. They will take 24-48 hrs to come out of the egg. So don't worry if they don't slither right out. Then they'll take about a week to get through Their first shed and then they'll eat. You can get mouse hoppers for the first meal but they will easily be able to eat sml to md adult
Mice.
Anyways thats it in a nutshell. Hope this is helpful.
Welcome to bp ownership!
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