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I got home from Florida this afternoon and Fiona had just delivered the last of her litter. The count is 18 live healthy babies, one stillborn fullterm, one premature and four slugs. There could have been other slugs devoured before I got home. Fiona was born here in 1999 from my Caat bloodline. The father of this litter is Lorio. I will try to post some PICs if I get some time. This makes a total of 150 live healthy baby Rainbow Boas for the year. 140 Brazilians, nine Argentinians and one Campina Grande.
Jeff

Congrats. That's a great total. I'm sure there are lots of pretty ones.

Linda,
....Thanks, some in these last two litters should be the best of the year. Did you see the Peruvian I got from that I posted a PIC of last week? She just keeps getting better every time she sheds. Thanks a whole bunch!
Jeff

>>Congrats. That's a great total. I'm sure there are lots of pretty ones.

Hey Jeff, congrats on yet another good litter, makes for a nice round number, 150 total. I remember somewhere you mentioned you had not broken a 250 in one season goal which brings a question to mind. Wht was the count from your biggest year? Mine was the 136 (all BRB) I produced in 2005 from 6 viable litters.
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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

Dave,
...Add one more to Fiona's litter for a 2007 total of 141 BRBs, 9 ARBs and the one Campina Grande. 1997 was my best year with 136 Rainbow Boas and 32 Jungle Carpet Pythons. The Rainbow Boas were mostly Brazilians with one or two two small litters of Colombians. My collection was smaller back then and the 120 to 125 BRBs must have been from 6 or 7 litters. My 141 live baby BRBs this year are from 8 viable litters. The only non-viable litter this year was Flo's delivery of 8 slugs. It will be very impressive if anyone beats your 2005 litter size numbers with the 136 in six litters.
Jeff

>>Hey Jeff, congrats on yet another good litter, makes for a nice round number, 150 total. I remember somewhere you mentioned you had not broken a 250 in one season goal which brings a question to mind. Wht was the count from your biggest year? Mine was the 136 (all BRB) I produced in 2005 from 6 viable litters.
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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

Very impressive numbers, thanks for sharing that info and congrats again!!

Yeah, 2005 was simply amazing for me, average litter size was over 22 with only one litter less than 20 and that was 18.

This year is going pretty good at 19.5 average for the four litters born here. If you include Ann's first time litter bred with Mikes Male, the average is still 19. And I still have one more litter due in two to three weeks.
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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

to the end of a great season.
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Thank you,

Tim

0.1 wc girlfriend- Melissa (still nippy even after a year and a half of loving care)
0.1 CRB- Tempest
0.1 JCP- Serenity
1.0 Black Cat- Chester A Arthur

>>to the end of a great season.
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>>Thank you,
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>>Tim
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>>0.1 wc girlfriend- Melissa (still nippy even after a year and a half of loving care)
>>0.1 CRB- Tempest
>>0.1 JCP- Serenity
>>1.0 Black Cat- Chester A Arthur

After I put Fiona back in her cage she laid one more good baby. I was hoping to have them sexed and to get them setup in individual boxes tonight but I have too much cage cleaning to do. I am eating a snack and taking a short break right now.
Jeff

>>I got home from Florida this afternoon and Fiona had just delivered the last of her litter. The count is 18 live healthy babies, one stillborn fullterm, one premature and four slugs. There could have been other slugs devoured before I got home. Fiona was born here in 1999 from my Caat bloodline. The father of this litter is Lorio. I will try to post some PICs if I get some time. This makes a total of 150 live healthy baby Rainbow Boas for the year. 140 Brazilians, nine Argentinians and one Campina Grande.
>>Jeff

Congrats on a great litter, Jeff! Can't wait to see the pictures.
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Aubrey Ross

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www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

Aubrey,
...Thanks, you working late again tonight?
Jeff

>>Congrats on a great litter, Jeff! Can't wait to see the pictures.
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>>Aubrey Ross
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>>www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

LOL, yeah.... I work 3rd shift full time. Funny thing is, I actually like it!
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Aubrey Ross

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www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

This is the premature baby from the litter. It was alive but still inside the membrane when I found it. There was quite a bit of soft yellow yolk material inside the membrane with the baby. The snake weighed 22 grams in comparison to the healthy babies in the litter which all weighed 29 to 31 grams. This snake had several kink deformities. Premature baby BRBs like this one are delivered at a rate of about one per hundred live healthy babies. Someone who had no experience with the birth of snakes might see this and think that it was amelanistic or hypomelanistic. Baby snakes have very little color until the last week or so before they are born or hatched. They develop the pattern fairly early in gestation but remain very pale until the last week of development. There was one stillborn fullterm baby in the litter which was approximately the same size as the healthy babies and had the same color. Rather than being delivered in the membrane most fullterm stillborn BRBs are delivered dead or near dead outside the membrane and they are probably the result of broken membranes which allow the baby to drown before it can be delivered. I have many times attempted to revive stillborn BRBs using external heart massage and mouth to mouth resuscitation. I have also intubated them with small bore human and veterinary catheters down through their glottis. These attempts have all failed. Occasionally a baby BRB is born that is outside the membrane and limp but breathing a little. These babies sometimes come around and are fine an hour after they are born.

Wow, that is cool! At first I did think it was a Hypo. Now I will know not to get too excited if I ever have any pale premies in my future litters. Thanks for the great info!
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Aubrey Ross

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www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

Wow, very interesting! Good info. to know!
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Amber Liann
1.0 Suriname BCC (Aloysius)
1.0 Colombian BCI (Austin)
0.1 BRB (Carmen)
4.5 KSB
1.1 RSB
0.1 Lesser Platinum BP
1.0 Mojave BP
2.5 Pastel BPs
1.0 Spider BP
1.2 Het Pied BPs
0.1 Albino BP
1.1 Het Albino BP
1.7 Ball Pythons
1.0 Pueblan Milk (Marishka)
1.1 Sinaloan Milk
1.1 Hypo Honduran Milk (Damien & Lucy)
1.1 Sunglow Motley Corns
1.1 Butter Motley Corns
1.1 Amber Corns
1.0 Snow Corn

do you think it will make it? the kink is so close to the head I can't see how it will get a meal down.

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>>This is the premature baby from the litter. It was alive but still inside the membrane when I found it. There was quite a bit of soft yellow yolk material inside the membrane with the baby. The snake weighed 22 grams in comparison to the healthy babies in the litter which all weighed 29 to 31 grams. This snake had several kink deformities. Premature baby BRBs like this one are delivered at a rate of about one per hundred live healthy babies. Someone who had no experience with the birth of snakes might see this and think that it was amelanistic or hypomelanistic. Baby snakes have very little color until the last week or so before they are born or hatched. They develop the pattern fairly early in gestation but remain very pale until the last week of development. There was one stillborn fullterm baby in the litter which was approximately the same size as the healthy babies and had the same color. Rather than being delivered in the membrane most fullterm stillborn BRBs are delivered dead or near dead outside the membrane and they are probably the result of broken membranes which allow the baby to drown before it can be delivered. I have many times attempted to revive stillborn BRBs using external heart massage and mouth to mouth resuscitation. I have also intubated them with small bore human and veterinary catheters down through their glottis. These attempts have all failed. Occasionally a baby BRB is born that is outside the membrane and limp but breathing a little. These babies sometimes come around and are fine an hour after they are born.
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-Jasmine

1.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

Jasmine,
....It died soon after I took the PICs. Babies that are born slightly paler than normal and looking only a little premature often do well. When they are as premature looking as this snake was their lungs are probably not well enough developed to survive.
Jeff

>>do you think it will make it? the kink is so close to the head I can't see how it will get a meal down.
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>>>>This is the premature baby from the litter. It was alive but still inside the membrane when I found it. There was quite a bit of soft yellow yolk material inside the membrane with the baby. The snake weighed 22 grams in comparison to the healthy babies in the litter which all weighed 29 to 31 grams. This snake had several kink deformities. Premature baby BRBs like this one are delivered at a rate of about one per hundred live healthy babies. Someone who had no experience with the birth of snakes might see this and think that it was amelanistic or hypomelanistic. Baby snakes have very little color until the last week or so before they are born or hatched. They develop the pattern fairly early in gestation but remain very pale until the last week of development. There was one stillborn fullterm baby in the litter which was approximately the same size as the healthy babies and had the same color. Rather than being delivered in the membrane most fullterm stillborn BRBs are delivered dead or near dead outside the membrane and they are probably the result of broken membranes which allow the baby to drown before it can be delivered. I have many times attempted to revive stillborn BRBs using external heart massage and mouth to mouth resuscitation. I have also intubated them with small bore human and veterinary catheters down through their glottis. These attempts have all failed. Occasionally a baby BRB is born that is outside the membrane and limp but breathing a little. These babies sometimes come around and are fine an hour after they are born.
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>>-Jasmine
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>>1.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
>>1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

There are 8 males and 11 females in the litter. The babies are all 18 to 19 inches long and weigh 29 to 32 grams. The mother of the litter was born here in 1999 and she is around 6.5 feet long. The father of the litter is Lorio which is a 2002 or 2003 from Gary Lorio's collection. I did not observe any mating between these two snakes but Lorio was in with her several times in march april and may. Fiona looked gravid and had palpable lumps starting in may.
Jeff

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>>I got home from Florida this afternoon and Fiona had just delivered the last of her litter. The count is 18 live healthy babies, one stillborn fullterm, one premature and four slugs. There could have been other slugs devoured before I got home. Fiona was born here in 1999 from my Caat bloodline. The father of this litter is Lorio. I will try to post some PICs if I get some time. This makes a total of 150 live healthy baby Rainbow Boas for the year. 140 Brazilians, nine Argentinians and one Campina Grande.
>>Jeff

Congratulations on the nice litter, and thanks for the
pics!

No Guyana litters this year?

>>There are 8 males and 11 females in the litter. The babies are all 18 to 19 inches long and weigh 29 to 32 grams. The mother of the litter was born here in 1999 and she is around 6.5 feet long. The father of the litter is Lorio which is a 2002 or 2003 from Gary Lorio's collection. I did not observe any mating between these two snakes but Lorio was in with her several times in march april and may. Fiona looked gravid and had palpable lumps starting in may.
>>Jeff
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>>>>I got home from Florida this afternoon and Fiona had just delivered the last of her litter. The count is 18 live healthy babies, one stillborn fullterm, one premature and four slugs. There could have been other slugs devoured before I got home. Fiona was born here in 1999 from my Caat bloodline. The father of this litter is Lorio. I will try to post some PICs if I get some time. This makes a total of 150 live healthy baby Rainbow Boas for the year. 140 Brazilians, nine Argentinians and one Campina Grande.
>>>>Jeff
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Thanks,
Ed

Ed,
...I do not have any Guyanans in my collection. When I had a litter of them in 1993 the babies were small and difficult to get started so I decided to not keep working with them. I have heard of other people having better luck with the babies though.
Jeff

>>Congratulations on the nice litter, and thanks for the
>>pics!
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>>No Guyana litters this year?
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>>>>There are 8 males and 11 females in the litter. The babies are all 18 to 19 inches long and weigh 29 to 32 grams. The mother of the litter was born here in 1999 and she is around 6.5 feet long. The father of the litter is Lorio which is a 2002 or 2003 from Gary Lorio's collection. I did not observe any mating between these two snakes but Lorio was in with her several times in march april and may. Fiona looked gravid and had palpable lumps starting in may.
>>>>Jeff
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>>>>>>I got home from Florida this afternoon and Fiona had just delivered the last of her litter. The count is 18 live healthy babies, one stillborn fullterm, one premature and four slugs. There could have been other slugs devoured before I got home. Fiona was born here in 1999 from my Caat bloodline. The father of this litter is Lorio. I will try to post some PICs if I get some time. This makes a total of 150 live healthy baby Rainbow Boas for the year. 140 Brazilians, nine Argentinians and one Campina Grande.
>>>>>>Jeff
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>>Thanks,
>>Ed

Congrats Jeff! It must be nice not having to keep checking on your girls now! Before my bps laid, I was down there every hour practically looking in on them.
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Amber Liann
1.0 Suriname BCC (Aloysius)
1.0 Colombian BCI (Austin)
0.1 BRB (Carmen)
4.5 KSB
1.1 RSB
0.1 Lesser Platinum BP
1.0 Mojave BP
2.5 Pastel BPs
1.0 Spider BP
1.2 Het Pied BPs
0.1 Albino BP
1.1 Het Albino BP
1.7 Ball Pythons
1.0 Pueblan Milk (Marishka)
1.1 Sinaloan Milk
1.1 Hypo Honduran Milk (Damien & Lucy)
1.1 Sunglow Motley Corns
1.1 Butter Motley Corns
1.1 Amber Corns
1.0 Snow Corn

I still have one more to go and she's not due for another 16 days!! Haven't started the constant checking yet, but in a week or so will start the pacing!!
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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

Congrats on another litter. What happened with the preme? Is it still living? If it is and it has kinks, what do you think it's chances are? If it does make it, do you think will it color up?
Rob
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For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1409055,1409359

>>Congrats on another litter. What happened with the preme? Is it still living? If it is and it has kinks, what do you think it's chances are? If it does make it, do you think will it color up?
>>Rob
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>>For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
>>1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
>>0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
>>0.0.1 Normal corn
>>0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
>>1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
>>1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

>>forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1409055,1409359
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>>>>Congrats on another litter. What happened with the preme? Is it still living? If it is and it has kinks, what do you think it's chances are? If it does make it, do you think will it color up?
>>>>Rob
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>>>>For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
>>>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
>>>>1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
>>>>0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
>>>>0.0.1 Normal corn
>>>>0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
>>>>1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
>>>>1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer
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For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

>>>>forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1409055,1409359
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>>>>>>Congrats on another litter. What happened with the preme? Is it still living? If it is and it has kinks, what do you think it's chances are? If it does make it, do you think will it color up?
>>>>>>Rob
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>>>>>>For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
>>>>>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
>>>>>>1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
>>>>>>0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
>>>>>>0.0.1 Normal corn
>>>>>>0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
>>>>>>1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
>>>>>>1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer
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>>For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
>>1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
>>0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
>>0.0.1 Normal corn
>>0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
>>1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
>>1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

Congrats on a good last litter.
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Mike

6.7 BRB
1.2 Spotted Python
1.0 Cal. King

Congrats on the two personal records this year- number of brazilians produced and biggest clutch. hope the females recover well for you Jeff
Bob

See above....
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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