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    Re: Parthenogenesis occurred

    Quote Originally Posted by colin-java View Post
    Thanks, its been close to 8 months now without feeding.

    She dropped from 2900g to 1900g and 3000g to 2200g last year cause of the eggs.

    She normally would go off food for maybe 5 or 6 months around winter without losing much weight at all, when she was younger she would usually eat most of the year though.

    I have a fresh pack of 15 F/T rats 150-250g, so no problems there.

    I'm wondering if they would try to build follicles and lay eggs if their weight was low.
    If I get her back up to 3000g, which is her natural healthy weight, is that gonna make her try for eggs again next year?
    Perhaps if she wasn't a good weight, she wouldn't try for eggs, but if she did lay eggs I know she would be a skeleton after it.
    I would NEVER reduce food in the hopes that any of my snakes would forego their attempts at reproduction...just never. In the wild, insufficient food would normally result in snakes skipping reproduction, and it's thought that they may skip every other year anyway, but in captivity, I'd never reduce their food to try to cause that. In the wild, many snakes just don't survive either...along with a low body weight might come some sort of infection that they'd be less able to fight off & recover from. Pets deserve the best we can do...wild snakes are sadly without help, & predators are there to finish them off when they slow down.

    In my previously mentioned example of that elderly rosy boa that I had for the latter 11 years of her life, I fed her as much as she wanted, always, & finally her body said "OK that's enough [reproduction]"...but that was after producing healthy offspring for 5 out of 6 years, & the one year I tried to get her to "quit" early by not allowing her to mate, it was actually worse for her; because of her poor muscle tone (from years of poor feeding while she was kept in the nature museum before she was turned over to me to keep). That year she nearly died (& would have had she been a wild snake with no one helping her) because pushing out those slugs was much harder than having live neonates that pretty much find the "exit" on their own. I kept her hydrated & tube-fed while she slowly regained her energy, & in time she was back to normal. While I have no reason to think, much less suggest, that your snake has poor muscle tone as my late rosy boa did, I still just wouldn't try to prevent her production of eggs by reducing her food. She might also produce anyway, but then have trouble expelling them, who knows? She's your snake, so ultimately it's your call- that's my "2 cents" though.
    Last edited by Bogertophis; 06-13-2020 at 09:52 PM.
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