Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
Interestingly Tim I have had an egg bound ball python. She was small, but much larger then this one. This was last year, with a possible het albino female that I had bought as a hatchling. I have a picture at home somewhere of the ugly looking eggs I ended up squeezing out of her. If my memory is right, she was right around or maybe just shy of 1200grams. She was over six years old and had never been bred. I finally figured that six years was enough time waiting for her to get bigger and I bred her. She was WAY over a couple of months after her pre-lay shed and was obviously uncomfortable and had a little bit of a prolapse going on when I tried to aspirate the eggs. The eggs were already solid so I couldn't aspirate any fluid out so I had to just palpate them down until I could squeeze them out of her. She's OK, but I held her back from breeding this year. I'll re-evaluate her next year and see if I want to try breeding her again, or just retire her as a pet.

Mark
Thanks for the reply Mark. My main point was that although I have heard and seen an egg bound female Ball Python, it is a pretty rare event from all of the people I talked to. I don't really think that size is that big of an issue. I have a small female that is in her POS right now, and I palpated 6 eggs in her. Those eggs are smaller than normal eggs. Therefore, I believe that a MATURE small female can lay without problems, and just typically has smaller eggs.

What was the average weight of the eggs that your female just laid. I would guess that they are in the 60 gram range, if my theory is correct.

EDIT: I just saw the eggs in the scale pic, and my theory was pretty close I guess. The egsgs average 62.5 grams each.