I promised myself at the beginning of this season that I would post the results of our breeding season for all of the great members on this board once we were done hatching. Since our last ball python hatched this morning, I have put all of the numbers together, and here they are.
These numbers are based on the 06/07 breeding season:
Total females in our breeding program: 40
Total females that copulated at least once: 35
Total females to lay eggs: 21
Total Slugs: 4
Total infertile eggs: 4
Total eggs that went bad during incubation: 12
Total good eggs that went full term: 118
Total hatchlings: 119 (1 set of twins born this year)
Total hatchlings that died: 1 (hatched from boob egg at light weight, and was a hard belly. She ate one meal and died)
Final Sex Ratio: 55.64
Lightest Hatchling: 23.0 grams (one of the twins)
Heaviest Hatchling: 87.6 gram ( a Het Albino from a girl that always lays big eggs)
Total Hatchling Weight: 6911.3 grams (we hatched 15.36 pounds of snakes)
Average Hatchling Weight: 60.1 grams
Just thought this might be some fun numbers for everyone to look at.
Thanks for looking, and I hope this may help someone's curiosity,