New to Breeding..

[Kinra]

Is it 3 days together, 3 days apart, rinse, repeat? If so, how many times?
And - I've seen the male breeding himself to death thing a few places. I only have two females that are old enough and healthy enough to breed, my other female is still recovering from her old life. So I don't think I have to worry about that, but do you suggest weighing him daily, or after every "together" session?

You keep pairing for as long as they are interested or until she becomes gravid. It can take a lot of pairings before you reach that point. Ball pythons will breed year round so theoretically you could just keep pairing until she becomes gravid. I think there are some that do this and some that stop pairing in April/May.

As for the males, I've been breeding some small males and as long as they continue to eat I don't weigh them more than once a month. As soon as they go off food I will be weighing them weekly and once they start dropping weight I will pull them from breeding.

I do have someone that I would trust to do this with, but I don't think I'll be doing it for a while. I'm used to the horse world, where buying breedings is a day to day thing. I just wanted to know if it was as common in the reptile world as it is in the mammal world.

Reptiles are a little different from mammals in that inbreeding is okay to some degree. It's common practice to breed a baby back to the mom or the dad, but it's not recommend that you do this for more than a generation or two.