You could approximate from when her baby gets to be 26", you'll never know for sure though.
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03-17-2008, 08:53 AM #21"First shed, A Success"
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03-17-2008, 01:11 PM #22"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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ok... i think i'll do that
Originally Posted by mycolorfulheart
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03-17-2008, 01:12 PM #23Forum Moderator
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Don't bother, growth rates depend on environmental conditions, diet and feeding intensity and to some degree it's even individual.
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03-17-2008, 01:13 PM #24"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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darn...
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03-17-2008, 01:47 PM #25Adult snake
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Being a retired scientist, it is fun try to use the old brain to apply the little knowledge and logic that I possess to try to answer a question. I certainly can’t tell you how old your snake is, but I can take a pretty good guess at how young it isn’t. All of the stuff that follows is by observation. Wild snakes in NY are born in late July or early August, about four to five inches long, assume they add an inch or two before they go down for the winter in October. Snakes that I have found that I am pretty sure are approaching their first birthday are about 10 or 11 inches, let’s say about a foot by fall, at age 1. Assuming four or five inches of growth by age two would put them at 16 to 18 inches the next spring (first mating). Chloe was about this size last summer when she had 7 babies (about the date of her third birthday). Two gravid females that I found last summer were significantly larger, in the 20 to 22 inch class, and had about 16 babies each, so a good guess is that they were approaching their fourth birthday. So I am guessing that a 24 inch snake would have been at least four and probably five years old (or older) in the fall of 2006. In any case her expected lifespan probably improved significantly when she was taken into your family.
Wow! I agree with Stefan, how bout that?
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03-17-2008, 01:50 PM #26Forum Moderator
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I had a feeling something was up when I saw that pig fly by my window.. Originally Posted by stonyloam
Wow! I agree with Stefan, how bout that?
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03-17-2008, 03:53 PM #27Moderator
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I agreed with Stefan once..... but then he changed his mind! Originally Posted by stonyloam
Wow! I agree with Stefan, how bout that?
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03-17-2008, 04:06 PM #28Forum Moderator
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"If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one?"
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03-17-2008, 04:12 PM #29Moderator
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I'm pretty sure I still have one...... but most of it has calcified now.
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03-17-2008, 04:15 PM #30"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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she had 18 babies that help your guess?
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