This girl was imported in 1990 and is currently around 19-20' (hard to measure a big, ornery girl like this). She weighs in over 200 lbs (209 lbs last time I borrowed a shipping scale from work). Her head is nearly the size of my foot, her neck at the base of her head is as thick as my bicept.
This girl produced a clutch of 80 eggs a couple yrs ago that she maternally incubated (like I had any choice in the matter) with 100% hatch rate! The hatchlings were over 30% larger in mass than what is typical for the species. Monster female = monster eggs = monster hatchlings!
This girl feeds on XL rabbits (2nd pic is of her swallowing a 10-12 lb rabbit), piglets, full size goats and lamb, basically any farm animal up to 60 lbs. She consumed over 150 lbs of food over 3 feedings in the month of August before she bred to produce that clutch of 80 eggs.
Nathan
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