Went home for lunch and the long awaited first viable litter was just born. Betty dropped 14 babies, 16 slugs and 1 preemie. Too bad about all the slugs but hey, I'm quite happy to have the babies.



Lightest weighed baby 25 grams

Heaviest weighed baby 30 grams



Typical was either 26 or 28 grams





For those that find small litters of babies crawling around and no slugs...Mom may have been busy cleaning up. Betty started eating her slugs right away. She had dropped two outside the moss box and ate those right after I pulled the moss box. So, I kept tossing the rest back into the cage as I cleaned up and she kept wolfing them down. When I was done and headed back to work, 10 eaten and still going strong.



How she looked 17 days ago:





Wolfing down slugs..















The pile at first glance:







After I pulled back the green moss to expose the whole litter. Obviously just borns, not a one really out and cruising but they are full term babies, very little yolk.







OOOUUUUUuuu, what do we have here, I bet thise one turns out to be a stunner. Pic doesn;t show it but this baby has lots of color for a just born BRB and check out those crescents, even some bullseyes!!





This one baby has a very odd looking eye. The one eye looks huge, even the orbital/occipital (not sure what they're called) scales are distended. I'm hoping it's just fluid under the eye scale. I've seen that happen a couple of times with adult BRB's while going for extended soaks just prior to shed. Will have to wait and see how this one does.


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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

24.36 BRB

19.19 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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