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As of yesterday, I believe my first round of layings is over. So I thought I'd post some highlights....

First up is my female Hypo Lavender who was bred to my Ice male. I'm all happy about future lava lavenders!

Hypo Okeetee of John Meltzer lineage laid 13 monster size eggs that I thought would never come out of a snake so small! Ow!

Hypo Upper Keys locality corn laid a clutch this year...

The old patriarch of my Charleston locality line laid another fine clutch...bred to her very red son again this year. Should be some more awesome red babies.

I had two female Love line Okeetees bred by my Edmund lay 17 and 19 eggs respectively, so in theory I should have an explosion of Okeetees...

And here's my largest clutch, 35 out of my frosted ghost!

My Hypo of Don S. Crimson line threw me 25 and almost made a complete circle of it!

Love Ambers anyone?

Had two batches of Candy Canes this year, here's pics of the one clutch and a momma...

nice snakes and great clutches.........35 wow........good luck with all those babies coming up....really like that pic of the candycane at the end.
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Hector

thanks! I sure didn't expect her to lay anywhere near 35!

Holy crap!! YOU are having an EXCELLENT season!!

Oh, that's only cause there were almost 25 females that went into it this year. Some didn't lay, a few became egg bound. Some of the egg bound ones passed the eggs later. One I put down as I saw she was on her way out... So there aren't nothing but roses in breeding! Please don't look at it that way! But I am most certainly WAY over the 250 eggs I had estimated to get...I'm just over 300 at this point. And even in incubation I've already lost a few eggs.

But overall I have been greatly blessed! Now I just need to hatch them all... Last year I had lots of eggs too, about 160, and only about half of those hatched due to too much humidity. And not cause they rotted, but just simply never hatched. I had full term babies in all the eggs but half were dead! This year I stayed away from hatchrite and went back to vermiculite with a ratio of vermiculite to water of 5 to 1 by weight. And then I've been covering with a damp sheet of newspaper. Wetting it when I need to if I see dimpling eggs. I'm liking how it's working so far.

Those are really great photos! Love the circle clutch of the hypo crimson, it will be interesting to see start pipping clockwise or counter clockwise, and go in order around the clock, lol
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

LOL! it would be funny but definetly not likely! LOL! Funny thought though!

Are they going to be double clutching for you?
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Hector

you know, I never push for that... So not everyone will double clutch, and the second clutch is usually always smaller in number and in the past, the heat of summer gets too high where the eggs used to incubate in the more steady lower temps of spring so they'd usually fry anyway, and then I'd have to wholesale second clutchers because they just would be too small for the shows. So I try to stay away from second clutches myself.

You've got an excellent collection of awesome-looking corns.
I reckon you'll be producing some fine-looking babies this summer!

Tim

Thanks Tim! I'm walking on eggs so to speak. Nervously eyeing egg boxes thinking...is that too much humidity? I did one box at a ratio of 4 to 1 and wish I hadn't, there is condensation going on the walls and lid and I don't like it. Might be changing them out to a new set up box with the 5 to 1 ratio of vermiculite to water like the rest of them. I'm finding most of the 5 to 1's work just fine, but you DO need that damp sheet of newspaper or they seem to want to dimple. With that sheet in place, lightly dampened, everything is looking great.

very nice bunch.......lots of kids

?...the upper Keys....is it an upper Keys???...not doubting or questioning totally but?....doesn't look like rosies I had before, and it does look like some of my ultramels....I've seen rootbeers(I guess hypo rootbeers actually) look like that also.....just asking.........

......Ice and hypo lavs....hmmmmmm......
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Yep! She's an Upper Keys corn, but of the Hypo variety. Showed up in Rich Zuchowski's stock. And that is where she's from. Bred her to a normal male Upper Keys locality male. So yeah, probably doesn't look like you'd think, but she's such bright orange in coloration that it reminds me a bit of a creamsicle in coloration. We'll see what the kids look like!

>>As of yesterday, I believe my first round of layings is over. So I thought I'd post some highlights....
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>>First up is my female Hypo Lavender who was bred to my Ice male. I'm all happy about future lava lavenders!
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>>Hypo Okeetee of John Meltzer lineage laid 13 monster size eggs that I thought would never come out of a snake so small! Ow!
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>>Hypo Upper Keys locality corn laid a clutch this year...
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>>The old patriarch of my Charleston locality line laid another fine clutch...bred to her very red son again this year. Should be some more awesome red babies.
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>>I had two female Love line Okeetees bred by my Edmund lay 17 and 19 eggs respectively, so in theory I should have an explosion of Okeetees...
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>>And here's my largest clutch, 35 out of my frosted ghost!
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>>My Hypo of Don S. Crimson line threw me 25 and almost made a complete circle of it!
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>>Love Ambers anyone?
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>>Had two batches of Candy Canes this year, here's pics of the one clutch and a momma...
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very nice!!
all of them are great looking snakes.
great examples of their morphs but I think that hypo upper keys is outstanding...beautiful snake
good luck with all of them!
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Jimmy Johnson
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Draybars Snakes

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Beautiful animals!!! Jeff

WOW you have some absolutely stunning corns. I wish i had the time to care for that many i would be in heaven. Congrats on all the eggs well done!