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These are some of my yearling Brazilian Rainbows. All of these were born here. I am posting this PIC to show how different they are from the Peruvian Rainbow PIC I just posted and the PICs of the 2006 babies before threir first shed.

This last PIC is the same snake as the one just above. I did nothing to the PIC after it came out of the camera to enhance the color. Sometimes the camera captures less than what is there and sometimes more.

if the second one is a female let me know i like that one.

All of those yearlings in the PICs are males.

Last year I wanted to hold back several babies so I was closely checking them all out. Not a clinical, quantitative inspection, more of a "I like" colors and / or patterns.

One thing that stood out like a sore thumb was almost all the really nice ones were males. Have you seen anything like that? Planning on doing the same type evaluation this year, I want to keep some more female screamers.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave,
...That is very interesting. My adult collection of BRBs has roughly two femlaes for each male. The adult males are all very pretty and except for a few specimens the females are less pretty. I had always considered that because I was holding back twice as many females as males I had had an easier time picking the best males and had to go further into the litter and pick out lesser females. In recent years I have noticed that most of the best looking babies are males. I did have one litter last year that had lots of great females but all the other litters contained better looking males than females. This will be difficult to research further because beauty definitely IS in the eye of the beholder.
Jeff

>>Last year I wanted to hold back several babies so I was closely checking them all out. Not a clinical, quantitative inspection, more of a "I like" colors and / or patterns.
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>>One thing that stood out like a sore thumb was almost all the really nice ones were males. Have you seen anything like that? Planning on doing the same type evaluation this year, I want to keep some more female screamers.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave Colling
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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
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>>0.1 Wife (WC)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)
>>
>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>11.24 BRB
>>10.16 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
>>
>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

JEFF WROTE: This last PIC is the same snake as the one just above. I did nothing to the PIC after it came out of the camera to enhance the color. Sometimes the camera captures less than what is there and sometimes more.

The difference between the two pic is pic #1 used a flash so the light is properly color balanced to sunlight and the second pic is ambient light, likely tungsten filament lighting (regular incandescent light bulbs, and thus the reds/oranges are enhanced. Photographers call this light "warmer" having a warmer appeal to the eye. To further illustrate the background is dark in pic #1 as the flash does not reach far enough to light the background but as the incandescent lights light the room entirely the background is light (and warmer colored too) in pic #2.

Hope this little bit helps.
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