Big mama our super pastel ball python laid her eggs! She laid 8 huge eggs! Her eggs are much bigger than the corn snake eggs. They are even bigger than chicken eggs! They feel different too! they have a leather like texture!We bred her to our male pinstripe ball pythons, so we should have some gorgeous babies! I can't wait for her eggs to hatch. We sadly don't have many pictures of her because her laying story was much different than the others. We were camping the day she was supposed to lay her eggs! My dad decided to put our security camera on her instead of the door. He took her hide box too so we could watch her through the camera's app. As soon as we got there and started unpacking the trailer. She laid her eggs. We watched her lay the first one and checked back once and a while. That night when she finished she coiled around them and shook her scales to incubate them unlike the corn snakes. Our last count before she completely covered them was 7 eggs. Here is a screen shot of her and the eggs through the camera.
When we returned home we debated the best way to pull them out. We got advice and decided just to pull her out then pull them out. Since corn snake and ball python eggs have to incubate at a different temperatures we decided to leave Coconut's eggs out and let the room incubate them. We keep the room temperature the same as the incubator should be for the eggs. In the wild corn snakes lay, then leave their eggs. We do not have a heater in the cages for the corn snakes so we keep the room the same temperature they need since they don't need as special heating and cooling as the ball pythons do . The ball pythons have a heater in their cages to keep their temperature an humidity just right. We put Big Mama's eggs in the incubator. We could have left them with her and she would incubate them herself. But it is healthier for her, for us to pull them so she could eat sooner and get back to full health sooner. When we pulled them Big Mama was very cooperative. My dad reached in pulled her out put her in a box out of the way while we pulled the eggs out and put them in shoe box. we had to clean the entire cage to get rid of the egg smell. If she smelt the eggs still she would either hunt for them, or incubate something that smelled like them. They are her babies so she wants to protect them. They should be hatching in August. Here is a picture of the eggs in the shoe box before they went in the incubator.
Hope you enjoyed. Let me know if you are interested in a baby. I will keep you updated. Thank you all!
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