Feeding stimulated mating activity?

[stevenrudge]

Has anybody ever noticed that during feeding frenzy or food envy sometimes coincides with mating activity ?l noticed over the years that you can keep mixed sex's in viv and you see no matings,you can do your normal maintainace with them in the viv and nothing,but l've had on many time seen matings during feeding or just after,l've seen it with lots off spp and l've seen it tonight with some of my corn snakes.
Has anyone else seen this or got any ideas
Steven

[guidofatherof5]

I can't say I've seen any connection with mating/feeding time. I do know that when my males are actively courting they don't even know what time of the day it is let alone want any food.:D

Interesting question.

[stevenrudge]

l thought l'd get a better response with this being a Garter forum,

[kibakiba]

Well perhaps no one has experienced it. Maybe you just found something that was a complete coincidence.

[chris-uk]

Not seen this, so nothing I can say. It could happen I suppose, but I'd have thought a full stomach of food to digest would be a bit of a turnoff.

[d_virginiana]

You might just be seeing the normal pick-up in feeding that happens once the weather starts to warm up, and it just happens to be the time-period they want to mate as well.

[stevenrudge]

Well perhaps no one has experienced it. Maybe you just found something that was a complete coincidence.if l'd seen this once l'd agree but l've seen this a few times over the years,l keep the females together year round and put the males in from early spring to late summer,sometimes you might get an quick response with the matings seen or otherwise but mostly l see the matting like this around feeding times,it go's like this, the garters tend to hang around each other but show no interest in matting,l put the food in,they all (storm)the food bowl and feed like thieve never seen food before then as their feeding they start to show interest in each other start their twitching and then mate,l've seen this with water snakes as well and corn snakes

[stevenrudge]

Not seen this, so nothing I can say. It could happen I suppose, but I'd have thought a full stomach of food to digest would be a bit of a turnoff.it is for me Chris l want to sleep,but that might just be my age

[stevenrudge]

l've just seen this again last night with a pair of corns l've been keeping together,although they were hanging out together they had shown no interest in mating,l put in food prey,they both showed interest in the food that turned into twitching which lead to mating,

[Invisible Snake]

l've just seen this again last night with a pair of corns l've been keeping together,although they were hanging out together they had shown no interest in mating,l put in food prey,they both showed interest in the food that turned into twitching which lead to mating,

Have you heard from anyone else that this has happen to?

[stevenrudge]

No thats why l did this post,l see this so often l though that it might be of interest to anyone who are having problems with snakes that they are trying to breed,induce mating activity, especially if they keep the sexes apart

[kibakiba]

I think you're stuffing the food with viagra.

[Invisible Snake]

I think you're stuffing the food with viagra.

Lmao

[Invisible Snake]

Hey stevenrudge, next time you witness this behavior with any of your snakes, try to video tape it and upload it on youtube so we can all see it for ourselves and maybe another forum member will come forward saying this has happened with their garters but just never associated it with actual mating, etc.

[stevenrudge]

l've posted this on other forums and got nothing back,to film it l'd have film the snakes before and then film as the food go's in and their behaviour changes,l'l give it a go.
PS l like the idea of me putting Viagra in their food,l give it a test run and try it myself first

[annulataarethebest]

They're not garter snakes, but with all of the milk snakes and kingsnakes I bred this year, if they didn't breed when I tried to pair them up the first time I'd feed them as much as they'd eat then throw them together 2 days later and they would breed. Then once they started breeding the males wouldn't feed for a month.