Pine snake eggs!

Scales Zoo · 04-27-04, 10:41 AM

This year we decided to breed Timber, our 14 year old Northern pinesnake. For anyone who's seen him, you will know he is very big and very gentle, and I wanted some Timber babies before he got any older.

The first female we bred to him, turned out to be a male. We had bought it last year in hopes of breeding it with Timber, and did not probe it until after we saw Timber and him Combatting.

We put the other female in with him for a bit - but we pulled her out and figured we'd wait until she shed. She looked to be in really good shape, even though she wouldn't eat as much as I wanted her to.

She just shed last week, so back in with Timber she went. This morning, I saw 7 eggs in with her and Timber. The sneaky devil must have gotten to her the first time.

The eggs look good, and are in the incubator.

All makes sense now. She looked in great shape and didn't eat because she was gravid, and the last shed was the pre-lay shed - there was no post brumation shed.

Putting egg laying boxes in with all of our female snakes. We suspect a few of them not to be bred.

There have been a lot of eggs laid in the last week and last night Byron from Saskatoon called and his blue beauty snake that he didn't think was bred just laid 14 eggs.

Get those egg nesting boxes ready!

Ryan