Quote Originally Posted by hgrub
Question is for anyone who try to breed them. You don't have to be professional breeder to answer my question.

- How many female you tried to breed the last season, out of how many you tried?

- How many of them that successed breeding and laid egg, out of how many you tried?

- How many male refused to breed, out of how many you tried?

- How many clutch turned bad, out of how clutch your female laid?

My question is for pure statistic purpose. I know many thing has a part into my questions that can alter your result. But I just would like to know the answers just for rough idea on this breeding thing.

Thanks
I normally count on 50% of my females that are of age and size will give me eggs. I have very few slugs, less than 2% of total eggs laid. I personally believe that once you have an egg in the incubator that if it goes bad after 3 weeks its your fault. You were off on humidity or temps. This does not mean that you will not ever get an egg to full term and then have a kinked baby or one that just crawls out and then dies. This just happens. I normally have 1 or 2 of these each year.

I had one male that was actually a hermaphrodite that at 4 years old never actually breed. He was sold this year strictly as a pet to someone. Other than that 99% of 18 month old males will breed at least a few females. Some are lazy and some will go and go until they keel over if you let them. You have to be very in-tune with your animals during breeding season.