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My first BRB litter of the year was born this morning. The mother of the litter is RD and the father is Caat99M1. RD had laid about half the litter when I discovered her. She laid the remainder of the litter in less than 10 minutes. There were 24 healthy babies, one stillborn and 5 or more slugs. She was munching down slugs while she was laying the litter. RD was looking very large but did not look ready until just a few days ago when I put a nesting box in her cage. Today is 126 days after post ovulation shed. She had started looking and acting gravid 2 weeks before the post ovulation shed. She is too large and heavy to palpate individual babies so I had no idea about exactly how many there would be. I did expect a total of 25 to 35 based upon her large size and bulk. I was only able to detect fetal heart tones with the Doppler FHT monitor in the last 6 weeks.

congrats on the stink ball of goo. Cant wait to see individual pics I have three boa breedings i am trying this year so hopefully i can finally enjoy the horrid smell of the boa goo lol

Tim,
...That goo is the slipperiest substance ever but it does not have a noticeable odor. Perhaps an evolutionary adaptation so that the new babies do not attract predators.
Jeff

>>congrats on the stink ball of goo. Cant wait to see individual pics I have three boa breedings i am trying this year so hopefully i can finally enjoy the horrid smell of the boa goo lol

hmm i always heard the goo had a odd smell to it. anywhos congrats again on the litter, see you at daytona I will deff have a few questions for you. I will be the big guy with a buzz cut drooling on everything lol

Big guy with a buzz cut drooling??? How will I tell you from everyone else there???

i will have the excess amount of drool going i want i want i want i want at everything i see lol. il make sure you know who i am once i introduce myself.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Tim,
...You could get a whole bunch of tats and then you would not look like everyone else at the show. BTW, I will be the old guy walking around like a kid in a candy store.
Jeff

lol besides the fact of EVERY1 in florida having a bunch of tatts i would so love more but for some reason i keep buying more snakes instead, silly me.

these are the two i was tryin to figure out the sexes on when i e-mailed you. I have a few questions about the male when i see you but it is to hard to try and explain in just text.

female ARB starting to go into shed

male ARB recently out of shed

Congrats on the nice litter.

Gestating cage temp set at 82?
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave,
...Mostly cage temps have been in the very high 70s while they were gestating this year.
Thanks,
Jeff

>>Congrats on the nice litter.
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>>Gestating cage temp set at 82?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave Colling
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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
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>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
>>36.51 BRB
>>29.42 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Congratulation Jeff! Very good breeding! sorry but 70s is 21°Celsius?!!! in Europe don't use fahrenheit but celsius(°C) and I dont'understand good your temperature of gestation!
Nino

...All 24 of them ate before they were 7 hours old. All were offered live pinky rats. 18 ate them. The other 6 ate live hopper mice. I love new babies.

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Some litters yes and some litters no. I like to get them eating and growing right away as that seems to set a pattern for them. Good eaters usually stay good eaters and conversely the picky eaters stay that way for years. I do not know why but it seems one litter will be born biting and striking at everything that moves and another litter will be born totally tame and calm. Whether they are biters or calm seems to not make any difference in whether they will eat right off. This litter was all calm and then ate right away. So much we do not know about these animals.

Congratulations Jeff. They look very nice. Excellent news of the prompt feeding response.
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

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Some of the babies from this litter

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