how old is my snake?

[mycolorfulheart]

You could approximate from when her baby gets to be 26", you'll never know for sure though.

[Snake lover 3-25]

You could approximate from when her baby gets to be 26", you'll never know for sure though.

ok... i think i'll do that

[stonyloam]

Well we could do snake years, dog years people years. It is said that a dog ages about 7 years for every people year, however this is not quite true, because the first couple of years the dog ages faster, about 9 years/year then slower 6 or seven for the next few years and as it gets very old even slower , 4 or 5. So it averages out about 7/1, depending on the dog of course. Seems snakes would follow the same trend, aging being front loaded. See where I am going here? No? Snakes probably reach peak sexual maturity a little later than dogs, so lets say after their fifth birthday you might expect maximum babies with diminishing returns some years after that as the snake reaches old age. A healthy mature eastern could be expected to have 30 or more babies, which is about twice the yield of your snake. It could be argued that your snake is off-peak, either younger or older than optimum baby snake having age. Since the snake was not huge (24”) and still growing , I would guess younger, four maybe five which is what I guessed before except I tend to think that might be her second bout of motherhood, so maybe four is more likely. Even more likely I don’t know what the heck I am talking about. You can tell I don’t have anything better to do tonight. By the way: glad you got your snake back

Hay Stefan: How old was that pig? I understand that as they mature the wing loading gets too high and they have trouble getting off of the ground.