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Babies born! Another Roswell sighting...

ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 12:29 PM

Woke up this morning to my gravid female Stella pushing out the first baby...

Five babies out so far...thre are two live albino Roswells ....one is healthy, but the other had a huge yolk...don't know if it will make it...

also have an albino and two beautiful hets....it's wonderful mom is letting me take pictures...she's just watching...

In this picture the baby just out is the second albino Roswell...

I'll get more pics up when she is done...

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Heather Martin
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Replies (42)

boaphile May 20, 2008 12:31 PM
salmonboa.com May 20, 2008 09:43 PM

Heather, the Roswells are amazing and a huge leap for the boa world, but most of the boas in that litter are great looking! What a fun pile of babies that must be to clean up! Good luck with them and get a ton more pics up as soon as you can! Those albino Roswells are outrageous!

Congratulations!
John
Salmonboa.com

geckomill May 20, 2008 12:36 PM

Sweet ass!!! pics!!!

rainbowsrus May 20, 2008 12:36 PM

Congrats on the super success of the roswell project!!!!!!!
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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

JackJebus May 20, 2008 01:13 PM

Werent those parents 66% hets? lol I cant remember.

It is pretty badass to see it was genetic though :D now you must save roswell and his albino half siblings to see what happens if you breed them together. (only of course if they are female )
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ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 01:40 PM

Jack, the trio I have are 100% het albino...
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Heather Martin
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JaredHorenstein May 20, 2008 01:16 PM

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!!

Huge Congrats!!

Jared H
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Randall_Turner May 20, 2008 01:24 PM

Okay, I am immensely stoked to see the results of this litter. Congratulations 100 times over on reproducing more.
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Boas make the world go round.

LarM May 20, 2008 01:34 PM

Amazing and beautiful congratulations.
. . . . . . . Lar M
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ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 01:38 PM

Looks like she's done...glad I got those babies out of there...she tagged me pretty good when I was wiping up the muck...

I still need to clean and separate them to get a final count, but this is what I can see so far...
3 albino Roswell
3 66% het albino Roswell
2 albino
about 18 66% hets...lots of nice ladders in there too
5 slugs

Here are some more pics, and I have video I'll put up later. Back to the cleanup...

And this was her thanks for me 'helping'...she was totally calm the whole birth...even when she saw me picking up the babies...but when I got in there with the paper towel, wow she let me have it, LOL

As much as I was hoping, I never really thought lightning would strike twice...that this girl has the gene too is just amazing!

I would have been happy with one healthy baby....but this, 6 of them...I have no words...
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Heather Martin
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LarM May 20, 2008 02:19 PM

I love them all but that little guy in 2nd to last picture
with the laddertail.He has that blurry pattern all the way
down.Normally I like crisp,but that one is kool!
Congrats again!

. . . . . . . . Lar M
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mack1time May 20, 2008 02:38 PM

You have got to be the luckiest girl in boa land right now!!!!
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ajfreptiles May 20, 2008 03:52 PM

Congrats Heather!!!!!!!

Now you need a bigger bank! LOL!!

Andy
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Shane Kinney May 20, 2008 05:54 PM

Awesome litter and pics, Heather! Big time congrats!! Even the "normal" albinos and "Normal" poss hets are really cool. My Lipstick line albino female tagged me also really well on the wrist when I was removing her from her awesome motley het albino babies. She had always been mellow and trustworthy before having those babies. Congrats again. I bet your head is spinning!

JaredHorenstein May 20, 2008 06:01 PM

Now this is an absolute MUST HAVE for me as I am a freak for striped snakes!!!!!!

Darn it.........why'd you have to go and prove them out ??????? Now I have to spend more $$$

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!

Jared
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giantkeeper May 20, 2008 09:16 PM

Great job, the Roswell babies look amazing!!!!!
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AndrewPotts May 20, 2008 10:05 PM

Heather big congrats on proving that the Roswell is in fact genetic. Those babies are amazing and quite stunning with such perfect striping. Wish you good fortune with your new discovery and many happy days to come. Thanks again for showing us the pictures. Andrew

bcijoe May 20, 2008 01:40 PM

My Roswell stock just went up!

Congrats 8)
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

Warren_Booth May 20, 2008 01:40 PM

Congratulations. One question though, did you tie the yolk sack off already? It might have been better to isolate that little guy in a deli cup and let it absorb some of the yolk over a 12 to 24 hour period.

Congrats again,

Warren
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North Carolina State University
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ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 01:46 PM

Warren, the umbilical was wound up all around the little guy...I was worried he was going to strangle...the yolk fell apart while I was untangleing him...

I did tie it off to keep him from bleeding...I would rather have let him absorb it but he was tied up in the cord pretty good...

We'll see what happens..he is half the size of the other babies...
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Heather Martin
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ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 01:43 PM

Thank you all for the kind words...I am so excited right now I can barely type...

The encouragement I've gotten this last 6 months helped me make it through this long pregnancy...thanks again!
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Heather Martin
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raybueno May 20, 2008 01:46 PM

Thats awesome! Im glad they proved out and very excited to see the albinos.
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Ray & Dustin Bueno
Bueno Brothers Reptiles
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fgs May 20, 2008 01:49 PM

Heather:

That is so awesome.

Congratulations Lady.

Brian
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

zenzinia May 20, 2008 02:07 PM

CONGRATULATIONS. Pure diamonds.
Looks like there are hiden gene in some square tail !

AbsoluteApril May 20, 2008 03:13 PM

>> Looks like there are hiden gene in some square tail !

I think the striping/roswell effect is from the BCc influence.

Congrats Heather, I bet it feels good to get the results you were hoping for! I like some of those hets with the awesome laddertails.
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skyslinger May 20, 2008 02:08 PM

settled and genetic!
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Ty
Rat Race Solutions
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BASICALLYBOAS May 20, 2008 02:21 PM
Hissenia May 20, 2008 02:52 PM

thats great!!
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

DEldien May 20, 2008 03:17 PM

Congratulations Heather!!!
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carl3 May 20, 2008 03:20 PM

Congrats. Those are some amazing boas...even the normals are fantastic. Was there a motley in one of those pics? Glad to see it was genetic and not a product of temp fluctuations or some other anomaly. I can't wait to see pics after 1st sheds!
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ilovemylizard May 20, 2008 03:39 PM

Thanks! I saw the 'motley' lookalike as well...one of the roswells had a perfect laddertail instead of a stripe on the last half of his body...very strange....
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Heather Martin
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ChadHorne May 20, 2008 03:48 PM

n/p

michaelburton May 20, 2008 03:54 PM

Michael Butron

chris nicholas May 20, 2008 04:40 PM

very exciting project you have going on!

Chris Nicholas

Tracy Barker May 20, 2008 05:05 PM

That is awesome!! Hmmmmm I think I predicted that result!!!Congratulations!!!

wetceal May 20, 2008 06:41 PM

I already posted this elsewhere but big congrats again on this awesome litter!! Can't wait to see post shed photos!

Celia
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Celia Chien
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BrocksBoids May 20, 2008 07:28 PM

be extremely excited to prove them genetic. Good for you!!!
Brock

JoshKetchum May 20, 2008 09:27 PM

Major Congrats on some beautiful snakes.
I can't wait to see more pictures...
I love this new morph...
Can't wait to see more...
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Josh Ketchum
Sunshine Boas

boldboas May 20, 2008 11:29 PM

Great news....BIG CONGRATS
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Kevin

boabackatya May 21, 2008 03:31 AM

WOW ... hands down one of the best litters ... in well, HISTORY Seriously, very nice and great job proving that the first was not a fluke. What a day it must have been for ya!

Warm Regards,
Trey Stowell
Wichita, KS

ChristianC May 21, 2008 04:50 AM

What an amazing project. I bet you are on cloud 9!
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Christian

christian@redwoodreptiles.com

styrsnake May 21, 2008 01:02 PM

Congrats Heather,
Very nice babies, those Roswells look sweet.
Steve

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