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Flo laid 8 slugs and nothing else late thursday. All the slugs had no sign of embryos in them. Flo is just three years old and is just big enough to reproduce. She looked good the first few months but recently it has been obvious that she was carrying a small litter that had no or at best very few live babies. I could recently palpate the lumps in her but they felt too firm and were spread out too much. I have had good litters from smaller young females but generally they are more likely to slug out than larger and older females. Posting info on the good litters is great but full disclosure on the bad litters provides information that to me is just as educational and important.
Jeff

well atleast you got potatos to go with dinnre tongiht you can always look at it that way i heard they taste like chicken lol. that sucks about her sluggin out out of curiosity what was her length and weight?

Tim,
...Last weight I have for her was during breeding season she was 1650 grams. She looked nice and plump without eating since last observed breeding in early april. I have not measured ber but she is around 5.5 feet long.
Jeff

>>well atleast you got potatos to go with dinnre tongiht you can always look at it that way i heard they taste like chicken lol. that sucks about her sluggin out out of curiosity what was her length and weight?

Perfect size for a first time breeder, I woulda bred her too!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

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:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

i feel alot better about my girl now lol it was her first year also and about same length and if i remeber right about 50 ish grams less on empty durring the season but about the same ish right before 1650-1700 if i remember right lol that was right before season started but to me she seemed so little lol still does lol. of course im use to my 2000 gram 4' balls breeding and my 7 lbs carpets lol

Thanks for the info. I'm stilllllll waiting on mine. I also have one that is not large but is an older proven female. Her belly is clearly softer, not hard palpable lumps and hoping it's a few babies. It's Savannah BTW.

My other obviously gravid girls are huge and look to have a lot in the bellies, time will tell what's in there!!

>>Flo laid 8 slugs and nothing else late thursday. All the slugs had no sign of embryos in them. Flo is just three years old and is just big enough to reproduce. She looked good the first few months but recently it has been obvious that she was carrying a small litter that had no or at best very few live babies. I could recently palpate the lumps in her but they felt too firm and were spread out too much. I have had good litters from smaller young females but generally they are more likely to slug out than larger and older females. Posting info on the good litters is great but full disclosure on the bad litters provides information that to me is just as educational and important.
>>Jeff
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

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:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

hey rainbows, where are my magnets????

>>Thanks for the info. I'm stilllllll waiting on mine. I also have one that is not large but is an older proven female. Her belly is clearly softer, not hard palpable lumps and hoping it's a few babies. It's Savannah BTW.
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>>My other obviously gravid girls are huge and look to have a lot in the bellies, time will tell what's in there!!
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>>>>Flo laid 8 slugs and nothing else late thursday. All the slugs had no sign of embryos in them. Flo is just three years old and is just big enough to reproduce. She looked good the first few months but recently it has been obvious that she was carrying a small litter that had no or at best very few live babies. I could recently palpate the lumps in her but they felt too firm and were spread out too much. I have had good litters from smaller young females but generally they are more likely to slug out than larger and older females. Posting info on the good litters is great but full disclosure on the bad litters provides information that to me is just as educational and important.
>>>>Jeff
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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 and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>24.36 BRB
>>19.19 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
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-Jasmine

1.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

Have not sent them out yet, your letter came in mid week and with my mom going in for surgery, I just have not had time to do anything with it. I'll get em out this weekend!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

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:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

charging for those right???lol My letter will be there in a couple of weeks also
Bob

I spent like five minutes gift wrapping that quarter!!!

>>Have not sent them out yet, your letter came in mid week and with my mom going in for surgery, I just have not had time to do anything with it. I'll get em out this weekend!!
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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 and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>24.36 BRB
>>19.19 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
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-Jasmine

1.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

my hard earned quarter cuz that cost him his hard earned pennies

LOL, my daughters wereasking who sent me a gift wrapped quarter.....was cute, you did a good job, bow and all!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

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:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Magnets??
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Aubrey Ross

©
www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

snooze you loselol I'll draw you one of mine in the "PAINT" program when I get mine. We are talking about Dave's magnets that say

Rainbows-R-Us

Ahhh, I see..... I've had my own magnets for several months now that say

Slipstream Serpents

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Aubrey Ross

©
www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

i have no magnets from no1 lol even tho i guessed daves buy from big mike lol and KS holds a grudge against me lol

wait i do have one it says

pizza hut

I used to eat only Pizza Hut and Papa John's before the hurricane now Papa John's puts about half the cheese and toppings on now so I only eat Pizza Hut. I always get the special usually 2 med. any way you want them or 2 lg.'s any way you want them and of course it has to hand tossed meatlovers with extra sauce ooooooooooohhhhhhh and it should be like this

Pizza Hut

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Pizza Hut and Papa Johns are my favorite peeeeeeeeetttzzaaaaaasss!!!!!!

Hey Tim... I can give you one of my magnets if it will make you feel better. lol
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Aubrey Ross

©
www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

he deserves onelol cuz after all Timmay is a

Ball Python Fanatic

SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!1

is something by the name of CoolBrew. It is cold coffee but it is a little bottle that looks funny in the fact that you take the top of it and squeeze, it fills up a cup at the top of the container like a shot of expresso and you pour that in a cup. Then add some vanilla creamer and then some milk and that is like crack it's so good. I would use other words but we would lose the thread but y'all have to try it
Bob

SCORE

If it's that important to you I'll bring one to NARBC.... I'm sure I'll see you there.
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Aubrey Ross

©
www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

ill prolly be there saturday as thats the way its planning out thus far. best spots to find me besides wondering around jeremy stone reptilicus bhb or just follow the trail of drool lol

hear that Jeff and at least you got your biggest litter this year which has to make you feel good
Bob

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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

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Thank you,

Tim

0.1 Colombian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Black cat

Thats too bad, maybe next year. You said she was almost 4 lbs right (1650 grams)? Sable is just over 4 lbs now, so I hope she gives me some live ones next year.

At least you do have some good litters to work with!
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Aubrey Ross

©
www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

1 pound = 453.6 grams
1650 grams = 3.63 lbs

Bob

the whole gramms to pounds to ounces etcthign alone i just wont say nothin lol

...Thanks to everyone for the nice comments. I have had years where I had one sucky litter after another with more slugs for the year than live babies. Most litters this year have been good ones. I am still expecting two big litters and one midsize one and one very iffy one. This is still looking like a very good year. If I was trying to make a living breeding snakes this stuff might be stressful. Doing it as a hobby is still fun after 43 years.
...The only problem is that I have too many hobbies and passions. I have not had the kayak in the ocean in two weeks and I am going nuts checking the weather for this weekend as we have more thunderstorms rolling thru tonight.
Jeff

>>Flo laid 8 slugs and nothing else late thursday. All the slugs had no sign of embryos in them. Flo is just three years old and is just big enough to reproduce. She looked good the first few months but recently it has been obvious that she was carrying a small litter that had no or at best very few live babies. I could recently palpate the lumps in her but they felt too firm and were spread out too much. I have had good litters from smaller young females but generally they are more likely to slug out than larger and older females. Posting info on the good litters is great but full disclosure on the bad litters provides information that to me is just as educational and important.
>>Jeff

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Bob,
....Kayaking is a great sport. I have been kayaking for about 10 years and paddled canoes for years before that. Kayaking can be lots more exciting than canoeing. It is good exercise and gets you into places no one else can go. We sea kayak and also do some paddling in the local black water swamps. Paddling up close to a shark or gator or manatee can be fun. I am planning to take a course at the national whitewater training center in Charlotte NC soon. I have limited experience kayaking in whitewater rivers. I do some kayak surfing though my current boat is not well suited for it.
Jeff