question

dan2492 · 09-18-03, 11:05 PM

A little while back i had a problem with one of my corn snakes she wasent eating and she was crusing around her cage all the time. Well she started eating a couple weeks ago but today i found a dried up clump of three eggs under her substrate. I was just wondering if this is normally what a corn snake does when its carring eggs?? I didnt even know my snake was old enough to lay eggs. about how old should it be befor you try to breed it. right now its almost a year??
Well Thanks
Dan

dan2492 · 09-19-03, 11:38 AM

anyone have any idea??

**Andy_G** · 09-19-03, 01:43 PM

It is normal for corn snakes to fast when they are carrying eggs. Yours is probably nowhere near breeding size, and breeding SIZE i do mean, not breeding age. I don't think any female corn less than 40 inches should be bred on purpose.

The age most people do breed at to stay safe though is about 21/2-4 years.

dan2492 · 09-19-03, 03:59 PM

ok thanks

dan2492 · 09-19-03, 04:19 PM

Yeah probably too small right now its about 30" and about a year and three months probably. It wasent an intentional breeding tho. Good thing she passed the eggs ok.

vanderkm · 09-19-03, 04:27 PM

The behaviour you describe is typical for females about to lay - they go off food and seem to pace in the cage - looking for an appropriate place to lay eggs. You are right that it is good she passed the eggs ok, and hopefully she was able to pass all of them. If she is back on feed again you will want to feed her well to permit body growth after the stress of laying at a young age. While females can lay slugs (infertile eggs) without being exposed to a male, it sounds like she was with a male before this, and it would be a good idea to house all your snakes separately so that she is not bred again until she has grown up and matured.

Is she the one in your avitar - if so she is a lovely cornsnake,

mary v.

dan2492 · 09-19-03, 04:47 PM

Yep its the one in my avitar that is when i just got her. They are all caged seperatley now, and she has been eating real good so hopefully everything will be ok now.

dan2492 · 09-20-03, 01:14 AM

I found two more old eggs in the substrate so hopefully it was all of them