Well, thanks to everyone for all of the nice emails, and responses below. It seems as though the method used for relieving the "hard yolk belly" was a success. Today however, I made a fatal mistake. I felt that one of the babies who was nearly fully recovered needed some kind of nourishment, and had refused food yesterday,and this afternoon, so I tried to pinky pump it(something I had done hundreds of times in my colubrid days).
The tube went the wrong direction. It was a lot easier to tube them the mineral oil when they were knocking on deaths door. He fought the pinky tube, and aparently I put it in the lungs. In a matter of seconds he was limp. I turned him upside down, and tried to rub the stuff out, stopping every few seconds to try to get him some oxygen. I am sure it would have looked silly to someone looking over my fence to see me,giving mouth to mouth to a baby boa, with rat blood on my mouth...anyway, I am bummed all to hell, and probably wont be posting anything for a while. Thanks again for all of the support. It's a shame to have gone so far, and to let it all slip away with one push of a syringe.
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Davey Giltner

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