what the hell?

[skatenc56]

i have a female ball python
not sure how old she is
but ive had her for 15 years
and she laid eggs
but she doesnt have a partner
what the hell?

[mlededee]

you've had this ball python since you were 2 years old?

[Freakie_frog]

wow good catch ???

[skatenc56]

haha, no
my stepdad got it 15 years ago
and he gave it to me 6 years ago
i just didnt want to get in to too much detail

[python.princess]

i think there's another thread like this around here somewhere....

[kellysballs]

I don't know if this holds true for Ball Pythons but last month at the Orlando FIRE show I watched a venom ecxtraction. The man doing the extractions (cant remember his name he owns a vemon facility in Deland FL) was talking about Parthenogenesis in florida cotton mouths.

In 1991 he collected an adult female florida cotton mouth from a ditch in volusia county. This snake was on their venom line in a rack type system alone for 11 years. In 2001 it gave birth (florida cotton mouths have live birth) to 3 male babies. Two of them were normal color phase and one has a luescistic apperance.
This snake has produced parthenogeneticly 3 times since then with all of the babies being male.
I thought this was pretty cool, so if you can incubate those eggs and see if they are fertile!

[skatenc56]

I don't know if this holds true for Ball Pythons but last month at the Orlando FIRE show I watched a venom ecxtraction. The man doing the extractions (cant remember his name he owns a vemon facility in Deland FL) was talking about Parthenogenesis in florida cotton mouths.

In 1991 he collected an adult female florida cotton mouth from a ditch in volusia county. This snake was on their venom line in a rack type system alone for 11 years. In 2001 it gave birth (florida cotton mouths have live birth) to 3 male babies. Two of them were normal color phase and one has a luescistic apperance.
This snake has produced parthenogeneticly 3 times since then with all of the babies being male.
I thought this was pretty cool, so if you can incubate those eggs and see if they are fertile!

thank you :-)
i will get right on it