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I check on Shimmer every day and it seems she gets a little bigger each time I see her. I'm so excited about the babies to come! I was stupid and didn't record her POS date, but she ovulated 12/31/07 and I'm pretty sure she had POS around Jan 16. So, when would this put her due date at? I'm guessing Mid-May, but I'm not sure on an exact or close to exact date.

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Rachel Squier

1.1 '03? BRBs (Blaze and Shimmer)
1.0 '07 Albino BCI (Cupid)
0.2 '07 100% Het Albino BCIs (Lia and Suzie)
0.1 '07 DH Sunglow BCI (Daisy)

wow that is a pregnant belly lol. looking good

so a litter sometime in may huh....

okay so im gonna sound stupid here for a min and ask... do BRBs breed twice a year? do the have a spring little and a fall littler?

ive only been watching the forums since novemberish and it seems to me thats when everyone was having their litters. but then breeding starts again in jan, they dont hold babies that long do they?
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-Stephen-

0.1 soon to be wifey (hopefully)
1.0 rotwiler/chow (Boomer-wifey's pooch)
1.0 norm corn (Jake aka grumpy old terdhead)
0.1 col redtail boa (Dixie-my baby girl)
0.1 ball python (Bella- wifey's baby girl)

hopeful for not to distant future:
--brazillian rainbow boas 1 female for sure
2 or 3? maybe a breeding pair?
-- bearded dragon for the wifey my list got to big...

more distant future hopefuls
1 or 2 of each maybe a breeding pair?
--anery boa (ooooh)
--jungle carpet python (love to have 1 or 2)
--dumeril boa (ahhhh)

slightly more wishful thinking
--hypo br rainbow boa (love em)
--anery br rainbow boa (oooh even better!!)
--motely boa (gorgeous!!)

Boas in general don't normally produce two clutches in a year because the whole process takes so much out of the females. Being from the tropics, Brazilians are aseasonal breeders. They will really breed any time of year. I think that most of us have babies in the summer or fall because this falls in line with the easiest season to cool the animals - winter.
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

okay so it does take that long from breeding to giving birth...

now lets assume the whole cooling isnt a problem, so if you had 12 breeding pairs you could breed on pair a month for a year??
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-Stephen-

0.1 soon to be wifey (hopefully)
1.0 rotwiler/chow (Boomer-wifey's pooch)
1.0 norm corn (Jake aka grumpy old terdhead)
0.1 col redtail boa (Dixie-my baby girl)
0.1 ball python (Bella- wifey's baby girl)

hopeful for not to distant future:
--brazillian rainbow boas 1 female for sure
2 or 3? maybe a breeding pair?
-- bearded dragon for the wifey my list got to big...

more distant future hopefuls
1 or 2 of each maybe a breeding pair?
--anery boa (ooooh)
--jungle carpet python (love to have 1 or 2)
--dumeril boa (ahhhh)

slightly more wishful thinking
--hypo br rainbow boa (love em)
--anery br rainbow boa (oooh even better!!)
--motely boa (gorgeous!!)

Theoretically you could but it's not just the cooling. There is also photo period, the amount of day/night. And have heard much talk about stormy weather inducing breeding behaviors.

I live in CA and need to use our winter for cooling. always seems to drive my babies into September time frame (+ / - a month)
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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Mid-May sounds about right. What temperature are you keeping her? She's very pretty. Good luck with your clutch!
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

I'm keeping the warm end at 82-84. Not sure what the cool end is, but she's never over there.
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Rachel Squier

1.1 '03? BRBs (Blaze and Shimmer)
1.0 '07 Albino BCI (Cupid)
0.2 '07 100% Het Albino BCIs (Lia and Suzie)
0.1 '07 DH Sunglow BCI (Daisy)

O.K., at 82-84 degrees, I'm going to guess 115 days from POS. That means your babies should arrive on Cinco de Mayo. Hmmm, maybe there should be a prize for whoever predicts the date. I don't know, maybe a baby snake or something
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

Lol, don't you always try to get a baby snake for a prize?

Is it the warmer the temperature, the sooner the due date? Of course, you wouldn't want to bake them!
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Rachel Squier

1.1 '03? BRBs (Blaze and Shimmer)
1.0 '07 Albino BCI (Cupid)
0.2 '07 100% Het Albino BCIs (Lia and Suzie)
0.1 '07 DH Sunglow BCI (Daisy)

I suspect that's true. I got gestation periods of 105 days in females kept at 86° F. Dave Colling had gestation periods of 130 days or so in females kept at 80°.

Always trying to get a free snake? Who....me?
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com