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Jeff Clark
at Sun Sep 4 22:06:46 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Dave,
...Sorry about the bad litter. I DO know how you feel because I have had plenty of bad litters and have even lost gravid females. You probably already know my theory is that the slugs are the problem. Slugs are difficult to deliver and perhaps the snake breaks the membranes on the others laboring to deliver a slug and the babies drown before they can be delivered.
Jeff
>>After 5 successful litters this year,
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>>A had a sad morning today, checked my remaining two gravid females and saw one was back to being skinny.
>>I thought cool, she dropped her litter.
>>When I checked her moss hide I found she had dropped her litter but there were no moving babies.
>>Final tally, 17 still, 9 slugs. Definately one part of breeding that sucks!!
>>On a good note, mom appears fine, drinking water and resting.
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>>I'll hang on to the stills for a little while to ensure they are in fact still. Many are still in the sac just not moving.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
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>>0.1 Wife
>>0.2 kids
>>4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
>>1.1 Ball python
>>0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
>>1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
>>0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
>>0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
>>0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
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RE: Highs and lows of breeding... - Jeff Clark, Sun Sep 4 22:06:46 2005