Hey Everyone,
My Argentine litter dropped today!!! 
This was a pure BCO breeding and these little babies are actually grandkids of the big “747” who was a huge 8-9 foot BCO that was fairly well-known on the forums a few years back. I’m pretty pumped about this litter because this my first BCO breeding ever. I’ve had BCI litters the past 5 years, but this was the season for my Argies to go and they did. 
Plus, I was able to catch the whole birth from beginning to end.
Here is the gravid momma back in May 2009.
Here she is a couple weeks back.
When I got home at around 6pm, I went to check on her because she had been “nesting” under the newspapers since last weekend. I immediately notice that she was having contractions. I kinda freaked because I had never caught the entire birthing process of any of my boa litters before. Also, she wasn’t actually due until this Saturday (105 POS), so I was a bit worried that there would be a bunch of premies. So she actually dropped at day 103 POS.
After a few minutes of watching closely, this is what I saw.
And then they started coming.
I said a couple expletives when I saw that external yolk on that first baby that popped out. But that seemed to be the only one with any worrisome yolk still unabsorbed.
They kept coming.
And coming. Wooooohoooooooo!!!!!
Here is how they looked still in the enclosure after I carefully removed momma and some of the newspaper.
Momma didn’t put up much of a fight when I took her out. I removed her right before she had a chance to plow through the babies with her head, at which point I think she would’ve taken my head off with. She surprisingly only gave a half-hearted hiss when I put her a clean enclosure. That was a big relief, believe me, because the last thing I wanted to deal with was a pissed off Argie momma that had just given birth. She’s doing well and took a nice XL rat as her first meal in months.
Here are cool pics of the babies. I love the ones where they are all just poking their heads up out of the sac.
Well, thanks for reading my long-winded pictorial of a very exciting day. I’m pretty psyched about this litter. So far, they all look good. I’m leaving them in the enclosure over night or even until they start to move out on their own. Even that one yolk baby seemed to have absorbed quite a bit of yolk since being born. I’m still keeping my eye on him/her though. There are others with somewhat big bellies but nothing I’m too worried about. For being 2 days earlier, they look pretty darn awesome in my humble opinion.
This has been a great year once again for boas and we’ve seen some pretty new and cool stuff this year. Congrats to everyone who’s had such great litters and good luck to those still expecting.
All the best,
Jay
