My 14 year old ball python laid eggs?!?!?

[MJO]

My 14 year old ball python wouldn't eat a couple weeks ago... never had that happen before.. then yesterday morning there were 4 (what looked like salt potatoes with out the skin n butter on them) the size/shape of a chicken egg... the pet store was no help.. told me to call my vet... ya I don't have a vet... got ahold of a guy who used to breed snakes n told me they were unfertilized eggs.... I'm in total shock... he.. well I guess she... is 14 and I got it at about a month old from the pet store never had any contact with another snake...

[StephenT]

Yep, unfertilized eggs. I've only heard of one or even two being laid, four is quite the clutch. That's a rare sight to see!

[Albert Clark]

There is a possibility those eggs could yield a baby snake. It's called parthenogenesis. I would incubate those eggs until proven otherwise. What criteria did your friend use to determine the eggs were infertile? Did he candle the eggs for vein structure?

[4theSNAKElady]

Yep, I agree with Albert C.... i wouldve candled those eggs first. Parthogenesis is not common, but it does happen!

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[Willowy]

My mom's bird (who had been DNA sexed as male!) started laying eggs at age 5. It was kind of a surprise, lol. But of course there's no chance of parthenogenesis with birds, but there is with reptiles. . .give 'em a try.