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RioBravoReptiles
at Fri Jun 25 08:34:01 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RioBravoReptiles ]
.. that's not long, probably about average for my BCI, but no prediction can be made from that.
It's mostly about the preferred temperatures the females maintain and then about locality. I guess that could be said to be all about locality, because females from certain groups tend to have similar preferences and if allowed a big gradient they work it out to their liking.
I'm working on a theory that some females will breed and ovulate and then go back into a feeding mode to fully develop the eggs before settling in to incubate.. I'm unsure how to prove this without cutting them up! Which I would never do.. but it is the only explanation I can see for some extremely long gestation times experienced and how the females act (and look) during that period.
Most all our breeding and ovulation is mid- January to Valentine's day.. but boas are born from tax day to Thanksgiving, with most arriving June 1st to September 1st.
Thanks for that goood question.
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Gus
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"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus
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RE: Wow! Congrats Gus. Is 126 days unusually long in your facility? - RioBravoReptiles, Fri Jun 25 08:34:01 2004