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As of about 15 minutes ago I have 99 eggs.
a list...
Glacier, female snow bred to anery...only 3 eggs.
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Shana, female cinnamon bred to rootbeer het hypo (cinnamon)
17 eggs
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Frosty, female snow bred to cinnamon...11 eggs
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Stripe, female stripe cream to stripe cream...I thought I only had one good egg but it looks like I might actually have 7 good eggs...whoo whoo
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Arwen, female cream to cream...19 eggs
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Katie, female cream possibly het motley to motley cream...16 eggs
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Bindi, female anery het amel het hypo to anery het amel het hypo..13 eggs
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Lacy, female ghost to ghost het amel...13 eggs so far with what looks like 3 to go.
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Unfortunately my pairing between one of my female creams to the male ultra appears to have yeilded 19 slugs..I have already tossed 5 eggs that started molding..there are a few more that look like they are going bad but there maaayy be a couple that are viable but a doubt it...bummer.
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I still have a snow to amel motley
a cream het motley to stripe cream
an okeetee to okeetee
a butter possibly het motley to butter possibly het motley
and two pairs of bairdis to go

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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wow. You know, I would have that many, had half of each clutch not been duds. Still REALLY irked about that. I was expecting a big season this year. What a big let down so far.

Glad to hear yours is going well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

>>wow. You know, I would have that many, had half of each clutch not been duds. Still REALLY irked about that. I was expecting a big season this year. What a big let down so far.
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>>Glad to hear yours is going well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>****Misty****
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Thanks Misty,
Sorry you have had troubles. I did have the problems with my stripe creams, and the cream/ultra pairing and my snow that only laid three eggs.
I also had a female normal that only laid three slugs.
I was wondering about her, though.
Last season I bred her to a normal male and she had a couple of slugs.
This season I tried her with a different male (normal motley)to see if it was her or the original male.
It appears as if it's her. I will not breed her again so she will just be a beautiful normal "pet"...lol

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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>>>>wow. You know, I would have that many, had half of each clutch not been duds. Still REALLY irked about that. I was expecting a big season this year. What a big let down so far.
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>>>>Glad to hear yours is going well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>>>****Misty****
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>>Thanks Misty,
>> Sorry you have had troubles.
I did have the problems with my stripe creams, and the cream/ultra pairing and my snow that only laid three eggs.
>>I also had a female normal that only laid three slugs.
>>I was wondering about her, though.
>>Last season I bred her to a normal male and she had a couple of slugs.
>>This season I tried her with a different male (normal motley)to see if it was her or the original male.
>>It appears as if it's her. I will not breed her again so she will just be a beautiful normal "pet"...lol
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But even with those setbacks things have been going reasonably well.
By the way...the count hit 100 a little while ago...the ghost dropped another egg...lol
looks like she has 2 to go.

I also wanted to add that I hope the rest of the season goes better for you. Keep your head up.

Hey, I got an e-mail from Kin.
She's doing OK. Keeping busy.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Hi Jimmy, I just wanted to pass on some info a very well known Milk Snake breeder told me once. He had a Ghost Honduran back when they were very high dollar, and the snake looked perfect. She threw slugs for a season or two and he decided as an experiment to not change a thing and keep breeding the same pair year after year. After about 6 seasons she produced a fertile clutch and continued to produce fertile clutches.
Why? Who knows.....but sometimes I wonder if some individual snakes are simply different than the norm and take longer to become mature? Many people would try other males....and sometimes this yields better results. Still, in this one case...someone took the time to really see what would happen if he continued doing things the same with the exact pair and in this instance it worked.
People will most likely say that this is only one isolated incident. This is true..........but the fact is 99% of us probably would not have tried this experiment so who knows? Maybe sometimes it is only a matter of age? Just something to think about as far as considering the one snake that didn't produce for you becoming a pet. Good luck with the rest of your clutches Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Good luck with everything.....
I got to breed my blood for the first time this year and after my blizzard lays I'm going to put them two together and hope for a charcoal!!!!!and pray!!!!!!with her second clutch...
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CD
Corns(Adults)
1.0 Snow ZigZag
1.0 Bloodred het Pewter
0.1 Banded Motley het Amel
0.1 Blizzard het Anery A
Corns(Sub-adult)
1.0 Anerythristic