Never heard of it. Ours eat while on eggs. Same feeding schedule as everyone else. Never refused yet. Ball pythons can go many months with out eating. Some do and will only eat 2 or 3 times a year.
I haven't maternally incubated a clutch; however, I have had females refuse to eat for a couple months after laying. They would be very thin but seemed to bounce back fine once they started eating. It's only happened a couple times but I've never had an issue.
the reason i posted is because people seem SO against it because they stop eating and its like.. why? if they dont die and dont get close to death like.. whats so bad about it?
Re: Has a mother ever died from maternal incubation?
Originally Posted by sugamama15
the reason i posted is because people seem SO against it because they stop eating and its like.. why? if they dont die and dont get close to death like.. whats so bad about it?
I dont think people are against it, as much as they prefer artificial incubation.
I don't think people are against maternal incubation due to them not eating because that simply isn't true.. It's more likely people are against maternal incubation simply because it's harder to provide a 100% stable environment for each and every egg during maternal incubation. Harder to keep an eye on each individual egg.
In reality it's not that hard to do, you just need to know what you're doing, but no, the female should not stop eating entirely. Certainly wouldn't starve to death.
Last edited by Foschi Exotic Serpents; 11-15-2012 at 05:05 AM.
the reason i posted is because people seem SO against it because they stop eating and its like.. why? if they dont die and dont get close to death like.. whats so bad about it?
Some are against it because of the not eating thing because they want to make sure the female gains back her weight without any issues
Re: Has a mother ever died from maternal incubation?
well i was in another thread and people were saying they would never do maternal incubation because its another like 2 months that they wouldnt eat or something.. but that didnt seem like a very good reason to me because i had never heard of a snake dying from it and i had heard what yall are saying which is that they still will eat while on eggs.
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they were saying you shouldnt feed them while they were on the eggs though also.. so i dont even know lol
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