How many eggs dose a corn snake lay and what do you do after she has laid them?

Question

How many eggs dose a corn snake lay and what do you do after she has laid them?

Answer 1

It depends on the age of the snake, young snakes can lay as few as 5 and older snakes can lay as many as 30+

Once the snake has laid the eggs, they must be transfered to the incubator. The female corn snake will twitch her body whilst you remove the eggs but will not attack.

The eggs must not be turned as this may drowned the faetus.

To incubate them, you may use vermiculite to place them in. The vermiculite must be damp but not overly wet, it must still be loose and not clumpy. When the eggs dimple this means the humidity needs to be raised, this is done by adding more moisture to the vermiculite.

The eggs may be incubated at around 85F and it will take approximately +-50 days to hatch.

Answer 2

Ask in the breeders section of the forums--lots of experts here:

http://cornsnakes.com/forums/

Answer 3

It varies from snake to snake.  My females average 14-21 eggs for first clutches. When they are laid, I personally prefer to put them in damp perlite. Vermiculite can smother eggs if it's too wet and you can't do that with perlite. Excess water just goes to the bottom of the tub.  I generally incubate at 80 degrees and have a hatch day of around 64-69 days.  This year I placed the egg boxes in the baby rack and since my snake room has been staying in the mid 80's, they stayed around 81-84 degrees and hatched out at day 58.  You will need to have small containers to keep each baby in once they've hatched and you will have to have a supply of day old pinky mice to start feeding them on once they've had their first shed.  Most cornsnakes will take frozen/thawed day old pinkies without a problem.  I just drop in a well warmed and dried pinky into the container and leave them with it.  I've had very few problem feeders.  I hope you've thought out what to do with the babies afterwards.  How are you planning on selling them?  Is there even a market for the particular morph?  What will you do with them if you can't sell them?  Are you prepared to keep and feed some for a year or more?