Fertility in Desert females – An Overview and Case Study by Justin Kobylka

[Spiritserpents]

So instead of getting a clutch every year or two from a female you might be looking at every 3-4 years.

Actually you'd get a clutch once, probably. Anesthesia is dangerous. My corn girl who was eggbound threw a bloodclot that lodged in her tail during her surgery, and her tail died overnight. She had it amputated the next day and has about 1 1/2" of tail left. She's full of eggs again right now and I'm petrified of the fact that she may have to have surgery again, and this time it would basically be a spay which is complicated and not guaranteed to be completely successful.