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sonoranreptile
at Sat Apr 23 13:58:32 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by sonoranreptile ]
Gray, I am sorry to hear about your loss. I have a somewhat similar experience from a few years back. One of my big females, she was 14 at the time and had an accident breaking out of her cage when she was 5; she ended up getting a huge gash mid-body from her dorsal scales to almost the top of her back. The resulting scar was about 8 inches long and it cut deep enought that she needed medical attention. Anyway, 9 years later she breds successfully for the first time in her life and I actually get to witness the whole thing. Well to make a long story short, she had 27 slugs and 7 babies. Of the 7 babies only one even remotely looked full term, the others were tiny and virtually uncolored. They all ended up passing away and the mother developed an infection somewhere in her reproductive tract and died 2 weeks later. This made me so upset that I sold all of my adult boas and concentrated on colubrids. It was'nt until someone gave me a HUGE female Colombian the next year that I decided to work with them again. Since then, I have changed my focus back to BCI, which was my first pet snake and I couldn't be happier.
I wish you all the best an am sorry ofr your loss. take care. Derek
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Derek Roberts
Sonoran Reptile Breeders
sonoranreptile@cox.net
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- If you are expecting babies or are in a good mood......you may want to skip this post - gray, Sat Apr 23 09:04:25 2005
- Sorry to hear about your loss... - kirby, Sat Apr 23 09:14:26 2005
- Every breeders nightmare... - Rainshadow, Sat Apr 23 10:18:08 2005
- RE: I am so sorry for your loss!An I personally 100% hate an understand ... - Hypoboa1, Sat Apr 23 10:20:33 2005
- RE: If you are expecting babies or are in a good mood......you may want to skip this post - bthacker, Sat Apr 23 11:00:16 2005
- Gray.. Sorry to hear about your girl - more - southernboids, Sat Apr 23 11:20:36 2005
- unexpected deaths are always the worst. - srsnakes, Sat Apr 23 11:22:07 2005
- GOD only knows................ - madisonrecords, Sat Apr 23 11:22:50 2005
- I am sorry to hear that............. - JohnLokken, Sat Apr 23 12:06:55 2005
- That really sucks, Gray....I'm sorry for... - Shane Kinney, Sat Apr 23 12:13:32 2005
- Something I've never forgotten. - neilm, Sat Apr 23 12:15:34 2005
- I'm so sorry this happened....n/p - Dove_3, Sat Apr 23 12:26:31 2005
- Sorry for the loss of your girl...> - drimes, Sat Apr 23 13:56:38 2005
 RE: If you are expecting babies or are in a good mood......you may want to skip this post - sonoranreptile, Sat Apr 23 13:58:32 2005  - RE: If you are expecting babies or are in a good mood......you may want to skip this post - Tracy Barker, Sat Apr 23 15:14:11 2005
- The encouragement and info is most appreciated..... - gray, Sat Apr 23 16:08:03 2005
- How sad. A tragedy like this makes us appreciate...> - LindaH, Sat Apr 23 20:16:29 2005
- I am truly sorry... n/p - SuppleReptiles, Sat Apr 23 21:41:26 2005
- Sorry for your loss Gray. I wish you the best of luck with the rest. np. - topnotchboas, Sun Apr 24 09:56:12 2005
- Seizure info - Chicagopsych, Sun Apr 24 16:51:42 2005
- RE: If you are expecting babies or are in a good mood......you may want to skip this post - lateralis, Mon Apr 25 10:42:40 2005
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