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Hey everyone,

My baby boa season has FINALLY started. My 2001 "poss" het albino female dropped her litter on 6/4/08 (about a week passed her due date based on 105 days POS). There were 15 live babies and 12 slugs. I hate slugs. I bought her as a 66% het albino back in 2001. Last year, this same girl dropped a premie liter (none lived) also with about 12 or so slugs. I couldn't prove her out last year because I only bred her with a normal male. This year she did MUCH better.

I bred her to a 100% het albino male and what do you know. Here's what I find last week.

I'm really glad she proved out, and more importantly that she pulled thru ok despite all the slugs she had. Here's another pic of some of the albinos.

Sadly, one of the albinos passed away a couple days ago. I really don't know what happened because all the albinos looked fine except for 1 or 2 that had slightly larger bellies full of yolk compared to the rest of the litter.

There was one pretty cool thing I did find in the litter. I think she there some twin albinos in the bunch that obviously didn't make passed early on in their development. I'm pretty certain they were in the same sack and attached to the same yolk. Here's pic along with the slugs.

The "twins" are on the bottom of the pic. It's pretty graphic, but you can clearly see that they were albino. I thought it was pretty cool. We'll see. Maybe I'll get some twin albinos in a year or two after she gets some good weight back on her.

There were also 2 normal babies that were very TINY compared to their brothers and sisters. I'll get a good comparison shot to show you all the differences in sizes. One of these is REALLY tiny compared to the rest.

Anyway, just your everyday, run-of-the-mill albinos. But cool thing is I got to prove out a 66%er, which I got for free I might add when I bought my male albino back in 2001.

Hope you liked the pics.

Best wishes to all of you during the rest of the baby boa season.

Jay

glad to see you got babies!!! and albinos! Congrats!

sorry about the slugs, though... that's rough.
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Thanks Bryan,

Yeah, babies are always good. The high number of slugs this year, plus her bad luck with slugs last year, has me contemplating even just keeping her as a nice, mellow pet boa. We'll see. I'm really just glad she pulled thru because I was getting a bit worried because this year she started lookin' like she did last year.

Anyway, thanks again for appreciating the babies.

Jay

Glad to see she proved out for you! What a great way to start the season. Good luck on the up 'n commin

Thanks, man. Yeah, I'm pretty happy she proved out. Just had the funny feeling about her after taking a closer look at her and taking into consideration some of those het albino "markers" some people have discussed here in the past (namely the eye thing).

I'm waiting for 3 more litters to drop with the next one being approximately some time next week (but not positive because this one didn't have POS), then July, then Aug (but the last one I'm not so sure about because she didn't have a POS). Man, I hate when the girls don't read the boa manual

How are your hogs looking? Should be pretty close, right?

Keep me posted.

Talk to you later,

Jay

Shes due in about 10 days and lookin good in the eyes of a novice atleast. Hopefully she doesnt slug out but if thats the case i will definitely get more eggs this year by the looks of it! Best of luck on the potential litters. I hope all of your boas are het albino for you!

Ha ha. I'm really hoping at least one very important girl is in fact het albino. She's looking good. Got about a month left for her though. Lately she's been looking really swollen and FULL of something. Let's just hope it's something good.

As for your hogs. If she only has about 10 more days to go, you've got a pretty decent chance on getting some babies. But that opinion is based on my very limited experience. I'm sure you check on her hourly, if not more.

Again, just keep me posted and I'll do the same with you

Jay

Congrats on the babies!!! And on proving out mom.

Those two small normals, are they sum total about that of one of their siblings? I had twin BRB's last year and Jeff had twin BCI's this year and both instances the twins together weighed about the same as one sibling and again in both cases one was clearly larger then the other. My BRB's were 13 and 19 grams while siblings were right around 31-32 grams
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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

The first thing I thought of when I saw the "runt" and the other smaller baby was their weight. But alas, I don't have a scale to weigh them. But I can kinda "guesstimate" that their combined weight might be close to the average weight of the normals and albinos. Especially since the "runt" is so very small compared to the rest of them.

After the first shed this week, I'll try and get some pics of the possible "twins" and a sibling to compare.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm pretty happy she proved out.

Jay

Congrats on the babies and proving out of your boa. Nice feeling to get some little wigglers
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Getting baby boas is indeed one of the best feelings there are. Nothing playing with a pile of baby boas.

Jay