Not to hijack this thread, but I have a female that is currently 46 days POS and hasn't laid yet. What exactly are you looking for when judging how far the first egg is from the cloaca and determining if they are egg bound? My female is laying in a perfect coil with the tail on the outside and has been doing so for at least a month. The first egg doesn't appear too close to the cloaca (maybe a couple inches away and she is ~1500 grams).