Building, Ovulating and Gravid

[West Coast Jungle]

Just took a few pics this morning of girls in various breeding stages.

This first girl is in big time building stage. She was feeding aggressively and then suddenly started refusing, always a good sign.


This pied girl started ovulating last night and today her belly scales are being pushed up her sides. The spec you see is generally much further down on the side of her belly.


This reduced girl ovulated last week and is now approaching her pre-lay shed, her spine looks somewhat normal on the first third of her body then begins being pushed up over where the eggs are and comes to rounded peak .

You can see the eggs are not that far down yet as she can bend her tail area sharply where they have not yet reached. When she is getting closer to laying the eggs will travel lower and closer to the vent making her tail look tiny. Then you know she's gonna blow


When you have seen this happen many times it is quite obvious but for those who aren't sure what to look for it could sneek by as we see in the many surprise clutch threads.

Thanks for looking and best of luck with all your breeding projects

[Rat160]

Very nice, Im a little dissapointed. I had several females I witnessed link up several times. Went off feed, but have not ovulated guess ill have to shoot for next year.

[West Coast Jungle]

Very nice, Im a little dissapointed. I had several females I witnessed link up several times. Went off feed, but have not ovulated guess ill have to shoot for next year.

Don't give up yet, different girls go at different times of year. I have had females lay in Jan. and in Oct. Don't go by a book, go by what your girls tell you

[iCandiBallPythons]

Very nice, Im a little dissapointed. I had several females I witnessed link up several times. Went off feed, but have not ovulated guess ill have to shoot for next year.

Keep pairing them

[Rat160]

Don't give up yet, different girls go at different times of year. I have had females lay in Jan. and in Oct. Don't go by a book, go by what your girls tell you

Some of the males I used may have been a little well "unequiped." I bred a few males this year that were a little young. May not have been mature enough yet but who knows.

[iCandiBallPythons]

Some of the males I used may have been a little well "unequiped." I bred a few males this year that were a little young. May not have been mature enough yet but who knows.

If you can see a decent amount of plugs I would continue pairing them