How to Breed Corn Snakes

Video Transcript

" On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about corn snakes. Corn snakes are very easily to breed due to the breed of maintainance. They don't require very strong temperature changes it's real settled temperature changes during the winter time. We'll make breeding easier it is possible for the females to become to lay eggs without temperature changes but it's not very like that the eggs will be fertile. Simulating the seeds in captivity is very important to producing fertile clutches, females corn snakes will usually lay a clutch of about 12-15 eggs. The eggs will usually hatch around 31-45 days after there 25-30 days of breeding now they usually only take 10-14 days after the legs are laid for them to hatch. A lot of female corn snakes will go through a post natal shed during this time and it will be most likely to eat of that occurs. But if the female is really skinny after birth then go ahead and offer here a couple of fuzzy mice trying to keep your weight up there. Cause a lot of females will stop eating for several weeks before even breeding. So this is a long period of fasten for these snakes and you need to make sure that they are able to eat as soon as possible after having her babies. Now a corn snakes needs to be at least 30" in length to breed it's not healthy for a female corn snake to have any breeding rituals at all until she's 30" or longer. Now the males can reproduce as juveniles even as young as 10 months old but it's not healthy for them. The males should probably be about 1 1/2 to 2 years old to be the best reproducers. If you want to reproduce in get morphs then you want to contact your local pet stores and see if we can order you some sort of morph corn snake or at least a corn snake that carries every size of gene for a ball or even an albino. One of the other morphs that you are interested in retrieving clutches."