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jonoandapril
Yearling

United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/01/2013 :  11:27:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
just seen an article by this name over on world of ball pythons. i have often wondered how much of a difference it would make to let the mother incubate the eggs as per 'the wild'. has anyone tried this? would anyone recommend it or do we think it is still better to take the eggs away and incubate them seperatly?
just a wonder really...

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reptilemadd
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
969 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2013 :  13:26:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We had a chat about this a couple of weeks ago on another thread, but basically it's a lot harder to incubate maternally high loss percentage so I don't think many people if any do it in the UK.

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hodgie
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/01/2013 :  15:52:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
There was a Canadian girl that used to be on here a few years ago decided to go with maternal incubation, all of hers were hatched without any problems. It probably won`t be any good if you had yours in a viv as most peoples humidity levels are to low, proved by the number of members on here that need to raise it when their snakes shed.

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jonoandapril
Yearling

United Kingdom
455 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2013 :  15:58:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
fair one. im deffo still going with the incubator, just made me think. id always assumed that it was better to incubate than let nature take its course due to the artificial habitat we keep them in, like you said hodgie.

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jbarlow91
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
897 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2013 :  16:28:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you maternally incubate the eggs the humidity don't need to be as high as it is in the incubators as the eggs don't lose as much water

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