Has anyone ever seen this happen?

[The_Boaphile]

I have had a few litters of Boas. I have never ever seen a female ovulate while opaque. At least I can't remember that ever happening. I have a Hypo ovulating right now that has not had a male in with her for two months. The male that bred her, did so only intermittently. A lazy 18 month old little fellow. Now three days ago she was going opaque and looked like she was ovulating. I though to myself, that must just be the meal she had eaten a week or so earlier still causing her to look fat. It couldn't be ovulation, she is opaque. Now she is fully and I mean fully opaque. If she is not ovulating, I have never seen ovulation before and have no idea what ovulation is. So the question is, has anyone ever seen an obviously opaque female ovulate? I have but today is the first!

[Randy_T.]

I was paranoid my hypo female actually was doing that earlier this week. She had been fed 2 large rats about 10 days prior and she looked really swollen while in shed.. Thankfully she finished her shed and defecated. (I was paranoid she would pre ov or ovulate without being bred and didn't want her to potentially slug out).

I am guessing if you have rarely seen it with your high number of animals then it hasn't been seen many times if any.

[kasper22]

I've had a female ovulate 2 months after I removed a lazy male, but I wasn't looking for an ovulation at that point so if she was in shed when she ovulated I missed it. I did get 16 health babies from that litter :'(

[The_Boaphile]

I too have had many females ovulate more than a month after the female was removed including at least 4 of them this year. But to my knowledge, I have never had one ovulate WHILE fully opaque. This is/was the first for me. I had asked Mike of "Basically Boas" fame if he had ever seen it. He said he had last year in a Hogg Island Boa. She ovulated while opaque. Shed eight days after that ovulation and gave birth 107 days after that shed. Total gestation from the last observed ovulation while in shed was 115 days. A little short of typical for Colombian or other Boas, which is my experience as well with Hoggs. So that is encouraging.