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What a cool deal. After all these years & God only know how many litters of boas, I finally was able to catch a female giving birth from start to finish. I knew this Bolivian girl was going to drop today so I decided what the heck, I'll stay at home & check on her religiously every 15 minutes. Finally at 3:35 P.M. I went up to take a peek & what do you know, she was just pushing out the first couple babies. So I went & grabbed the camera. I never got any really killer pics but I'm pretty happy with what I did get. She certainly proved what I knew all along. Good healthy litters don't take much time at all. It was 18 minutes start to finish with a couple slugs & around 30 babies. This girl always has perfect litters & she is the mother of the other 2 girls that produced for me this year. She's 10 years old now & this is her 4th litter. I'm betting she is probably good for 3 or 4 more down the road with next year off.

This one is taking notes just to see how it's done in the future.

no great shots, that one is fantastic!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I've seen a couple litters of Brazilian Rainbow Boas being born, it's amazing how quick it is
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

This one actually came out to see what I was doing.

I'll get some pics up later of the entire litter. Time to clean up the goo now.

Enjoy,

Lee

Wow...your first time seeing it, I know you were hype!
Its the best thing I've every seen each time that I see it. Great job and good luck on the rest of your season.

Griff / L.A.Snakes, Inc. / lasnakes@hotmail.com
L.A.Snakes, Inc. / Griff

The babies look great! I love that shot of the one baby on mom's tail. There's nothing like watching a boa give birth *sigh*!

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien
Celia Chien Photography

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I hope one of these days I catch a birth in the act! Very cool!
Thanks for sharing and congrats on a nice litter!
-April
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April. I was pretty stoked. I normally always seem to miss them by 5 or 10 minutes.

Wow,must be kool to see them give birth.You have really beautiful Bolivians.I have a blood python eggs due in 10 days and a P.C. line Salmons due next month.Do you have any Suri's going this season ?
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It's that odd one with no side patterning at all. She was bred by the odd paradox male. Kinda looks like slugs but it may just be a small litter (like 6). She's still a month away. Peruvians are due in the next few days though.

A nice pile for sure.

Alex C

very nice!!! that little guy that is on his way out in the pix seems to have some great symmertical peaks!
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I'M IN SKIN!!!

Looks like it turned out to be 27 babies give or take. I thought she was going to have 35 or more. Looks like they're just big hunking babies. Much larger than the others. Here's a pic of the bulk of them. Sorry for the bloody mess, that's just kinda the way it goes.

Thanks again,

Lee

litter and on getting to watch the birth. Talk about an amazing experience!
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Amanda Burke
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Joel Pretz
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

do you mind posting pics of the parents?