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I am curious do rainbow boas shed after they get pregnant? If so, is that when I start counting down the days? Does the gestation period last 130 days or what? I would appreciate some help.
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Good question. I observed what I thought was ovulation in one of my BRB females on 3-17-06. She had a very pronounced midbody swelling that only lasted of r acouple of days. It was very similar to the ovulatons described by gren tree python breeders. Copulation with the male occurred both before and after this event. Her next shed was about a month later on 4-17. On 7-31-06 she dropped her clutch. This was 142 days after the ovulation occurred. Close to your estimate of 130 days.
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

My experience has been 132 and 127 days after POS.
Paul

..I used to keep very accurate records of everything including breeding dates and meals and shed dates. What I found was that gravid BRBs usually shed 2 or 3 times between last observed mating and parturition. They sometimes shed just a few weeks before laying. I have even had them lay while opaque. Many of them go into a shed cycle soon after laying babies. The best indicator I have found to estimate birth dates is that most litters are born around 5.5 months after last observed mating. Determining if they are gravid is never a sure thing. Gravid females usually quit feeding a few weeks after last observed mating and eat nothing or at the most 2 or 3 small meals during the entire period after they initially stop feeding. Males lose interest in them around the time they quit feeding or a week or two before. I have only seen large noticeable ovulatory mid body swellings a few times out of over 100 Rainbow Boa breedings. I do often see that the females look lumpy and gravid at about the time they quit feeding. While they are gravid they should lose very little weight over the entire 5.5 months. As gravidity progresses they often look like they are losing weight in the forward part of their bodies and getting heavier and lumpier in the aft part. I have many times had females look and act gravid for the entire 5.5 months and then pass a large messy stool and not lay babies.
Good luck,
Jeff

>>I am curious do rainbow boas shed after they get pregnant? If so, is that when I start counting down the days? Does the gestation period last 130 days or what? I would appreciate some help.
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>>1.1 Motley het butter corns
>>0.1 Snow corn
>>0.1 Okeetee corn
>>1.0 Anery mutt corn
>>0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
>>0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
>>2.1 Colombian Redtails
>>1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
>>1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
>>1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
>>0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa