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baby goo? I like seeing all the birth pictures that everyone posts, but I don't know if my stomach can handle cleaning up after it. What do you use to clean up all that stuff? how do you go about it? What does that stuff smell like? I know these are probably newbie questions but as someone that has never bred before, I wouldn't know the answers.

I use soap and warm water to clean out my cages after a female gives birth. I never have had a problem with the goo (My fiance refuses to help clean up though). If my stomach is weird at all it is from the excitement of seeing all the babies that accompany that goo.
Milo

Baby goo is like syrup. The best syrup you will ever smell and or clean up. When I see the pictures of it here on kingsnake.com, since I haven't had any babies since the Motleys last year, I can almost smell the beautiful aroma that is Baby Boa Goo. The blood that flows through my veins. It's the dew in the morning. The flowers at sunrise. The honey in my comb. The spring in my step and the smile on my face. Baby Boa Goo is the barbeque on my ribs.

Baby Boa Goo smells like Baby Boa Goo. There isn't anything else like it. It's not bad and it's not like Nana's brownies. It doesn't remind me of Davani's, where you can get the best pizza in the world, but I'd much rather smell it that a large Pepperoni any day! That's for sure. The slimy gooey part of the goo is the only thing that you should give a second thought to, and once you dive in for the first time, I'm sure you'll have it licked!

No big deal really. It's a whole lot less yucky than baby poopy diapers are. A whole LOT less yucky. That plus you won't have to worry about getting Desitin under you nails when your done. It's finger lick'in good too! But seriously, I personally use Aspen bedding to soak up the vast majority of the goo. I add more Aspen if I have to and rub it right out of there. After that, a little soapy water and it's right out of my cages. I get the stuff out of the house since I want to smell that next litter and that previous goo could unnecessarily throw me off the next morning.

Look forward to it! Relish the moment as Ryan and Bob have in the past day or so. The first litter only comes once. After that, the excitement can still be there each time, but the knowledge of what to expect from the goo will make you an old hand at it before you know it.

One short last note: Don't be a big baby. The experience is wonderful. Everything about it! You will never forget and the squeamishness apprehension you feel about it now, will very soon be forgotten. Good luck making some goo of your own! Goo baby goo!!!
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you crack me up Jeff. Hopefully I'll get my first experience with baby goo next year! Can't wait!

even if the glue has warped his mind.

Cherish that first experience, Mine was with a litter of BRB's. It's sooo sweet to find the pile o' babies after waiting and waiting and wondering and second guessing etc. etc. etc. For me I still am amazed every time I have another litter, I've had 20 litters and I still pace around their due date checking the cages over and over. Wow, when you see the babies for the first time, they are so cute and tiny.

Very much looking forward to my first BCI litter, if all goes well will be this season.

>>Baby goo is like syrup. The best syrup you will ever smell and or clean up. When I see the pictures of it here on kingsnake.com, since I haven't had any babies since the Motleys last year, I can almost smell the beautiful aroma that is Baby Boa Goo. The blood that flows through my veins. It's the dew in the morning. The flowers at sunrise. The honey in my comb. The spring in my step and the smile on my face. Baby Boa Goo is the barbeque on my ribs.
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>>Baby Boa Goo smells like Baby Boa Goo. There isn't anything else like it. It's not bad and it's not like Nana's brownies. It doesn't remind me of Davani's, where you can get the best pizza in the world, but I'd much rather smell it that a large Pepperoni any day! That's for sure. The slimy gooey part of the goo is the only thing that you should give a second thought to, and once you dive in for the first time, I'm sure you'll have it licked!
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>>No big deal really. It's a whole lot less yucky than baby poopy diapers are. A whole LOT less yucky. That plus you won't have to worry about getting Desitin under you nails when your done. It's finger lick'in good too! But seriously, I personally use Aspen bedding to soak up the vast majority of the goo. I add more Aspen if I have to and rub it right out of there. After that, a little soapy water and it's right out of my cages. I get the stuff out of the house since I want to smell that next litter and that previous goo could unnecessarily throw me off the next morning.
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>>Look forward to it! Relish the moment as Ryan and Bob have in the past day or so. The first litter only comes once. After that, the excitement can still be there each time, but the knowledge of what to expect from the goo will make you an old hand at it before you know it.
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>>One short last note: Don't be a big baby. The experience is wonderful. Everything about it! You will never forget and the squeamishness apprehension you feel about it now, will very soon be forgotten. Good luck making some goo of your own! Goo baby goo!!!
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www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats