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All of you people that have beat the odds this year.........
Knock it off, please!

My first ball clutch ever (happy dance)is finally here and you folks are using up all of the good luck!LOL

It's from a pastel to a normal female and I got 6 good eggs and 2 duds. I'm just praying for lots of female pastels. Wish me some of that good luck!

Cheryl

I know what you mean. My first clutch of the season (Pastel, PH Hypo X Normal) has pipped. 7 eggs and so far, I don't see any Pastels Doh!

Oh BTW, good luck!
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Jay A. Martin
Jay Martin Reptiles

That stinks, Jay! But I'll keep your clutch in mind in case I have bad luck too. Misery loves company, they say!

Hopefully you'll at least have a high female ratio.

Cheryl

Ok hopefully some of my luck cough cough skill (lol) will rub off 8 eggs 4 normal females and 4 pastel females!

I wish you luck!

Paul

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www.nydistortion.com
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I breed ball pythons bearded dragons and play paintball!
3.7 dragons
1.11.8 Ball pythons
5 pastels
15 normal balls

I hope it (luck or skill) rubs off too. Good luck with those girls!

Cheryl

Cheryl,

Good luck and when they pip you will be amazed. Very exciting. Please let us know what you hatch.
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Kyle J. Stevens
Royal Variations Ltd.

Many a false step is made from standing still.

I'm using up more than my share of bad luck~ that should help balance things a bit.

Sucks for me though......

Lets see......

I couldn't get my het pieds to breed last year~ They were big enough (late 02 pair from Kahl) but would not co-operate with MY plans

I got ONE clutch from a pair of possible het Axanthics last year~ it proved out to have NO axanthics (6 healthy normals~ thats good news at least!)

I couldn't get my het pieds to breed this year~ or for the male to breed any females at all~ so I bought a new proven het pied male from RDR to replace him (money I didn't want to spend to replace a perfectly healthy but queer snake late in the season)

The other snakes (het ghost, het albino, het pastel males to normal females) were all breeding like mad. Put the new Het pied male into the rotation~ he bred his girls...I had high hopes........I bred over 20 females this year all together.......

A rack accidently got turned off after the warm up~ I don't know for how long......aparently too long.......

My het pied female came down with a resp infection......(she seems better now~ but not gravid as far as I can tell)

I've gotten three clutches this year (over twenty females bred~ three clutches) from three different sires (the het pied, the het albino and the het ghost)........all three clutches were dead. Slugs. I put them in the incubator~ but I knew they were dead to start with and now they are just little yellow ROCKS holding places in my empty incubator.......

All three of those clutches came from girls in the rack that got turned off. The rack that did not get turned off.....well.....those girls are not giving me dead eggs......just NO eggs at all.

So~ I've taken up some of the bad luck
Hope it helps~ cuz I'm pretty much hating it!
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Cheryl Marchek
AKA JM
The Red Dragons Den
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons~ for you are Crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

I have no idea what a "het Pastel" is~ I must have just been typing het over and over and over again! My pastel male is a pastel male.....I have no clue why I said he was a HET pastel......stupid me I suppose! LOL! NO wonder my luck sucks so bad this year~ I don't even know what I'm talking about!
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Cheryl Marchek
AKA JM
The Red Dragons Den
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons~ for you are Crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

I sure hope this coming season is better for you!

I got my second clutch today. 5 good eggs and 7 duds. SEVEN! It could have been a 12 egger! Maybe that will be my share of the bad this year.

Cheryl Bald

thats almost half the clutch~ so the glass is almost half full!
Congrats!
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Cheryl Marchek
AKA JM
The Red Dragons Den
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons~ for you are Crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!