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Temery
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 Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: eating during breeding? |
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I thought I remebered reading on a previous post about how balls do not like to eat while mating/breeding but can't find the posts and don't quite recall, is this true?
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RonCrawford
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Some will feed, some will not. I've had females feed up to a week before ovulating. They don't feed when they've ovulated and/or are gravid.
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deborahbroadus
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I've begun to think that snakes, for all their similarity and instincts, are as individual as humans.
Before you all stone me...consider that I have noticed:
Females during breeding season
Humans: some develop cravings, some do not
Snakes: some will eat up to and beyond gravidity and some will not
Humans: Some get "moody;" some do not.
Snakes: Some get moody, some do not.
And it's like that with all of the animal kingdom it appears. Rarely does any animal follow exactly the dictates of its nature. 
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RonCrawford
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| deborahbroadus wrote: | | Snakes: some will eat up to and beyond gravidity and some will not |
Balls don't feed when they're gravid.
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deborahbroadus
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| RonCrawford wrote: | | deborahbroadus wrote: | | Snakes: some will eat up to and beyond gravidity and some will not |
Balls don't feed when they're gravid. |
That's right!! Vicky or Arwen fooled me! She wasn't gravid when I thought she was. (remember the one coiled as if on eggs?)
Then a lot of mine must be gravid because they have stopped eating..but I am gonna trick them, I am gonna put a AFS in there and see if they eat  . If they don't eat that..it's definite! 
(it might be all the renovations going on in the house right now).
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