These photos were taken about two weeks ago, BUT I have been unable to make it to the forum to post Monday Photos. I try my best to take accurate photos, and have experimented with numerous different techniques, but several of these photos still appear washed out. Outside in full sun is often too bright with strong shadow that covers up ½ of the snake, in full shade makes them appear too dark and does not highlight the iridescence; So I take the photos in dappled sunlight light and I often use the flash as well. I think this gives a pretty true take on color, BUT the actual animal is nearly impossible to capture via photography (Celia at Exotics By Nature does an exceptional job with her rainbowboa photography). There are too many photos to load onto this forum post, So please take a few minutes to look at the links that display what a few generations of selective breeding can do…
The First litter of the season was born on May 27th 2006 from a pairing of the Orange 1997JR male bred to the Reddish/Orange 1998JM female and had 19 spectacular babies. I am anxious to see what these babies grow up to become, they are already drenched with color (at two months old) which bodes well for their adult coloration. This pairing should produce animals with great color and EXCEPTIONAL side crescent markings. For pictures of the parents, see the first row of page 2 of the 2006 parents Photo-page. The JM female is in the first three photos and the 1997 JR male is the fourth photo. Individual Baby Photos on the Second link… http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006ParentsWebImages/index_2.htm
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006_052706WebImages/
The Second litter was born on Memorial Day, May 29th 2006. I bred the JD male to the JD female to produce very clean light orange babies. This was the first time I bred these animals together, and although the adults are top-notch, the babies were initially not as nice as I expected them to be. Well….. Good things come to those who wait. The remaining babies have really started to gain their colors over the past two months. Photos of the JD male is on the top link, He is the snake on top. Photos of the female are on Row #8 of photopage#1. Baby photos Link#3.
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006ParentsWebImages/pages/jd_JWlamarFemale X 2002JDmale 001.htm
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006ParentsWebImages/
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006_052906WebImages/
The third litter was from another JM*JR cross born on June, 28 2006. I got 16 babies from the Jody Daddy bred to JR2002 female#9. I expect the pinker sided babies with thick dorsal markings to have a higher probability of looking like the father. The ones with thinner markings will probably be a little more orange than red. These Red to Orange crosses are great because you can get so much diversity in the offspring. I bred these together to see if I could get bigger crescents into the Jody Bloodline and Brighter Cleaner color into the JR bloodline and it looks as if I succeeded. Some of these babies also have an unusual character. Usually below the side crescents there is a row of black circles very close to the belly scales. Some of these guys have what appear to be the beginnings of crescents coming in these black circles. I call these double crescents for lack of a better descriptor. Photos of the parents are on row5 and row8 of ParentPhotoPage#2. Individual pictures of the Babies are on the link below…
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006_062806WebImages/
My fourth litter was another JM*JR cross born on July, 07 2006. This should be the reddest litter I have ever produced. The JM2002male is the red holdback son of the Jody Daddy. The JR2002female#21 is the reddest of the top six holdbacks from the JR*JR litter in 2002. She is not quite as red as he is, BUT this litter should still represent some really RED reds. Again look for pink sides…
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006ParentsWebImages/pages/n2002JR21female X 2002JMmale 002.htm
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006_070706WebImages/
The last group of babies that I have represents the BEST animals from a breeding group kept by a friend of mine. He has kept rainbowboas since 1989. I bought my first pair of rainbowboas from him in 1994, and he has steadily increased the color in his collection by holding back some of his most colorful offspring and by purchasing unrelated animals from other breeders. Photos of Parents and Babies below.
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006AKLamar/
http://rainbowboas.com/images/2006_LamarWebImages/
Thanks for taking a look…..Sorry about the pricing on the top of the photopages…I am not trying to bend the forum rules but rather show off babies, and I did not want to make another set of photopages…
Have a GREAT August.....BHH
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