Breeding balls vs corns

[Dianne]

One other thing: I've bred corn snakes before, and they don't always quit producing when you want & expect them to. One of mine churned out healthy
clutches for about 5 years after just one mating...no joke! So think about it carefully before you take the plunge, there can be "surprises" & no "off" switch.

This is how I got Bullet. I had bred my normal male and hypo female once. She had a healthy clutch of eggs with beautiful hatchlings. Over a year later I was selling the mobile home I lived in and had moved all my snakes to my Mom’s place so I didn’t have potential buyers freaking out. Mom called and said Yin was acting odd, not hiding under her water bowl like normal (hollow dog bowl style), cruising the tank, etc. I go out to Mom’s and take her out, noticing she’s a little thinner than the previous weekend. I pick up the water bowl to clean her cage while I was there and voila...small pile of small eggs. Most had gotten too dry as they had been laid at least 24 hours before, as she had been cruising the tank that long when Mom called. She hadn’t gotten noticably larger like she did with the first clutch, and the eggs were smaller as well. Luckily I didn’t get any more surprise clutches after the one set.