Combating males

[ssscales]

I've read how breeders sometime allow male JCP's to fight in order to breed. I stopped feeding them back in late November and have been cycling them since. Daytime temps low 80's/night time temps low 70's-high 60's on occassions. This is my first year attempting to breed JCP's and was wondering should I let the males go at it or should I wait?

I have 2.2 JCP's all adults, I've been pairing them on and off for about 2 weeks now and have only witness very little action from one male. The other seems to need Viagra!!

Do you think I should try letting them fight? How do you go about this? How long do you let them go at it? When do you separate? Should I leave the winner with both females or let each male have his own female?

Please help..

[The Dom]

I have been combating a few male this year as one of my males needed viagra as well lol

My male jungle is a great stud but my male irian did not seem hetero .. I made him fight with a small male coastal on one occasion and a larger male jungle.. on both occasions I leave no winners.. about 5 minutes or less together..

I let them twirl around together a bit then I will seperate them very quickly. I ussually will do this around 7-9 at night this way I introduce my males back to the species specific females..

I Personally see no problenm in fightimg males that are not in breeding mode with different locales. Its alwasy worked for me ..

Anyways .. best of luck to you
Dom

[Jeff_Favelle]

Some Jungles don't begin breeding until after cycling.

[ssscales]

For now, I'll just keep switching the males around after every 7 days. I also won't feed them till after all breeding trials are finished.

Question, when do you guys call it quits till next year?
April, May, June, July?

[Jeff_Favelle]

I've never had a Carpet egg layed later than July 11th. So subtract incubation time, POS time, ovulation time, follicular-building time, etc etc, I would say that any breeding after May is not beneficial. But that's in MY situation. I ain't claiming anything for anyone else.

[ssscales]

Thanks, I figure I'll call it quits around late March - mid April. Still toooo early to even consider failure.

My boas got off to a great start as soon as introduction. I'm confident the JCP's will pick things up by Feb.

[ssscales]

I don't know whether to feel stupid, thrilled, or both!

You guys will never believe this, but today I got home and as usual no action with the JCP's. I decided to see what would happen if I left both males in the cage with both females. I was expecting some sort of combat, shoving, one male trying to pin the other, etc.

They were off to a slow start so I decided to leave the room for 30 minutes. Well, when I got back to check on them.....The smaller male was copulating with the larger male!!! Yes, I witnessed copulation!! Needless to say I think the larger male turned out to be a female!! Unless I have the only homosexual jungle carpet python in the world!! He/she is 5ft in length, I guess I should have probed him/her when I got it and not gone by the larger spurs, previous owners word and smaller size compared to my other females.

Eitherway I am thrilled just to see some action in the JCP's cage!

Question? Now that my only smaller male about 4-1/2ft has three females to try and satisfy, should I seperate and feed him every now and then?