As some of you have read over the last couple of weeks I had seven healthy stripe creams hatch when I really only expected one.
Then I had a clutch of 10 eggs that looked great all through incubation reveal a total of four severally kinked babies and six eggs that started collapsing. I decided to slit those eggs and all six contained dead snakes that were seemingly just not strong enough to exit (all kinked as well). This was a snow female bred to a cinnamon male. Was looking to get rootbeer het amel het anery het hypo. The only good news in the deal was that two of the four babies that actually hatched were cinnamons meaning the snow is het hypo..that was a nice discovery.
Both the male and female have breed successfully to other mates so I will just have to make sure they are in the best condition possible when I breed them next year.
Now, my third clutch has hatched with all three hatching successfully. Yes three.....lol, a small clutch of three eggs and three slugs. In this case I bred Glacier another of my snows to Odin, one of my anerys. I paired these two for their lack of yellow. You have to look very hard to find a significant amount of yellow on either snake. Simple goal...anerys with no yellow.
Well, I got an interesting surprise in this pairing also. Odin is het amel! The three babies that hatched were all snows...So we will see if these will work towards another goal..No Yellow Snows..
I also had a clutch of 19 eggs from one of my pairs of creams go bad. They all looked great for about two weeks then day by day they all went bad. The sphagnum moss (my incubation media of choice but maybe not next year) wasn't too moist or too dry, at least not in comparison to any of my other clutches. I even replaced it once to make sure. I have no idea what happened here either. I have to go over everything thoroughly to see if I can see what I'm doing wrong and correct it for next season.
Another "bad news" was that neither female bairdi ended up gravid.
I thought both pairs had hooked up successfully so I didn't continue to place them together to make sure. Well, by the time I realized they weren't gravid they had lost the drive to mate. I put them together for three days and then apart for three days over a two week period with no results. So, the snakes I was probably most looking forward to breeding will have to wait until next year...bummer. But, the parents are nice, healthy and beautiful so I'm sure I will be more successful next year.
now what's still cooking
Shana, female cinnamon to A&W, male rootbeer het hypo (cinnamon)…17 eggs laid 4-10
16 due to hatch approximately June 10th to June 17th
Expected hatchlings: rootbeers het hypo and cinnamons
Star, female creamsicle to a male Ultra (possibly ultramel). 19 eggs laid 4-15
Looks like 8 still good…Due to hatch approximately June 15th to June 22nd
Expected hatchlings: normals (ultras) or creams (ultramels)
Katie, female creamsicle possibly het motley to Aragorn, male motley creamsicle…16 eggs laid 4-19
15 due to hatch approximately June 19th to June 26th
Expected hatchlings: creamsicles het motley and hopefully motley creamsicles
Bindi, female anery het amel het hypo to Pistol Pete, male anery het amel het hypo…13 eggs laid .4-19
Due to hatch approximately June 19th to June 26th
Expected hatchlings: anerys, snows and ghosts various hets
Lacy, female ghost to Jacob, male ghost het amel…14 eggs laid 4-20
Looks like 10 still good, due to hatch approximately June 20th to June 27th
Expected hatchlings: 50% ghosts and 50% ghosts het amel
Yeti, female snow to Gimli, male amel motley…12 eggs laid 4-21
10 due to hatch approximately June 21st to June 28th
Expected hatchlings: amels het anery het motley
Venna, female butter possibly het motley to Makhan, male butter possibly het motley…15 eggs laid 4-25
Due to hatch approximately June 26th to July 3rd
Expected hatchlings: butters and hopefully butter motleys
Yoda, female creamsicle het motley to Apollo, male stripe creamsicle…17 eggs laid 4-28
Due to hatch approximately June 29th to July 6th
Expected hatchlings: creamsicles het motley/stripe and motley creamsicles het stripe
Ariel, female okeetee, to Frodo, male okeetee…17 eggs laid 5-2
Due to hatch approximately July 3rd to July 10th
Expected hatchlings: okeetees
looks like around 121 to go
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Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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