I have a pretty good feeling this girl is gravid. Here are some pictures for you guys to look at. All opinions welcome.

The story....
I have a buddy that had this female paired with a male for about 3-4 months in winter and early spring. She was eating, passing food and looking pretty normal. He gave up, thinking she did not bred.
He saw lock up many times in the months that she was with the male.

She went off of food April second. Up until that point she was eating every couple of weeks.
She will not take food of any kind now at all. The lower part of her body is rock hard and is very very round compared to the rest of her body and is getting rounder and more hard/firm feeling by the week.

She is not spending all her time on the hot side. She is spending about 50% on the hot 50% on the cool side. Her temperament has not changed. She is still very calm for the most part.

Here are some picture. Her last meal was April 2nd. She is about 4.5 feet long and 6 years old. She has bred before and is a Hog x Normal cross.

She is also getting a bit darker and drinking mass water.

Here are some pictures.
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h373/BoogieRay/Kess%20Female%20Boa/DSCN9722.jpg
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h373/BoogieRay/Kess%20Female%20Boa/DSCN9721.jpg
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h373/BoogieRay/Kess%20Female%20Boa/DSCN9723.jpg

If I had to guess I would say she is definatley gravid, just from what I heard about boas, they take a long long time to breed and 3-4 months may not have been enough time to show signs of being gravid, but from the pictures and description, I would say she is gravid. Keep us posted!!

She does look gravid and appears a bit swollen posteriorly. I would keep her in a low stress situation and don't feed her.

Dan

From your pics and description she looks and sounds gravid to me. Best of luck here on out.

For the comment about Boas taking a long time to breed...I had a successful litter after changing my mind and removing the male. He was only in there 3 weeks. 1 slug, 35 live babies at the end of it.

Just saying, they don't always follow the rules we make for them. ;)


The Boa in the pic looks like it could have recently ovulated to me. The swell is still localized IMO. If she is gravid you should see that increase in size travel upward in the bottom half of the body over the next month or so. Unless the ovum are unfertilized, and she's gestating slugs. Then she'll stay about the same size until parturition.

Good luck.

Thank you for the responses.

For the comment about Boas taking a long time to breed...I had a successful litter after changing my mind and removing the male. He was only in there 3 weeks. 1 slug, 35 live babies at the end of it.

Just saying, they don't always follow the rules we make for them. ;)


The Boa in the pic looks like it could have recently ovulated to me. The swell is still localized IMO. If she is gravid you should see that increase in size travel upward in the bottom half of the body over the next month or so. Unless the ovum are unfertilized, and she's gestating slugs. Then she'll stay about the same size until parturition.

Good luck.


I'll second this, I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing looking at the pics, post ovulation swell, still a long ways to go for babies (boas take forever) but congrats, looks like you're on your way

For the comment about Boas taking a long time to breed...I had a successful litter after changing my mind and removing the male. He was only in there 3 weeks. 1 slug, 35 live babies at the end of it.

Just saying, they don't always follow the rules we make for them. ;)


The Boa in the pic looks like it could have recently ovulated to me. The swell is still localized IMO. If she is gravid you should see that increase in size travel upward in the bottom half of the body over the next month or so. Unless the ovum are unfertilized, and she's gestating slugs. Then she'll stay about the same size until parturition.

Good luck.

Congrats on the litter, I was pointing more along the lines of how they take awhile to show signs of being gravid, not the actually breeding, and copulating. spelling??