Hi. I want to thank you for the advice about massaging the belly. I found a beautiful rat snake in our coop this morning and we successfully helped her push the ceramic egg out and traded her a real one. There’s lots of different ways to handle that situation and i felt responsible because i bought the ceramic eggs. We get plenty to eat, if this snake takes a few it doesn’t hurt anyone i think. The whole process took about an hour and it seemed to know what to do all by itself but it did try to pull the egg deeper and I was mostly there to stop it going down. I pushed towards the mouth on the belly side with fingertips pretty lightly. It moved about 1 millimeter a minute. Very slow. But it did move so i kept with it until the fake egg came out.
