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I started lowering my temps on Nov. 1st and started introducing the males on Dec. 1st. Ive seen bowl wrapping and typical cooling behavior, but no ovulations yet. Just wanted to see if anyone around Texas (or anywhere) has started getting ovulations yet? I'm really excited about this year I just had 2 lay last year and lost all eggs due to an incubator problem in the last few days of incubation. I cut anyway and saw perfectly colored kinked babies with hardened yolks. It was hard to go a whole year without seeing pipping heads so now I'm just antsy!!!!!!!!

I started intros in mid October, and saw my first two ovulations today. Two down and a few dozen to go!
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Robert A. Heinlein

Congrats....I'm sure you'll have several others following suit. You always have a bunch of cool stuff. I'm hoping for BEL's for the first time this year. My female is an 06 mojave and 2000g. This will be her first year to go. She went on a hunger strike last year right before breeding season just to piss me off!!

But I have eggs due to be laid next week, two females approaching ovulation, and a few more that have bred steadily and I'm waiting to see signs of building.
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Snakes:
1.1 gray banded kingsnake
1.1 california kingsnake
1.1 kenyan sand boa
1.1 western hognose snake
0.1 albino checkered garter
1.0 florida blue garter
1.1 het anery red sided garter
1.1 reverse oketee corn snake
1.1 blood red corn snake
0.1 amel striped corn
1.0 amel 66% het striped corn
1.1 het albino ball python
1.1 het ghost ball python
0.1 spider ball python
1.0 pastel ball python
1.1 mojave ball python
1.0 butter ball python
0.1 ringer ball python
1.0 African dinker ball python
0.3 normal ball python
1.0 piebald ball python
0.1 het piebald ball python
0.1 Genetic Stripe Ball Python
1.0 Het Genetic Stripe Ball Python
0.1 Mystic Ball Python

Turtles
1-eastern box turtle
2-spotted turtle
2-eastern/midland painted turtle intergrade
1.0-common musk turtle
1-Pink bellied sideneck
6-Northern red belly

Invertebrates
0.1 southern black widow
1-Tanzanian Giant Tailless whipscorpion

Amphibians
0.1 Ornate Horned Frog

Birds:
1.1 red avadavit
2-blue breasted cordon blue
1.1-black cheeked waxbill
0.1-star finch
1.0-Java rice sparrow
2.0-owl finch
1.0-hybrid munia
0.1-White bellied caique

Fish
2-corydoras cats
1-African upside down cat

normal stuff
0.1 black lab

Where are you located? Wow you have a lot of projects going on there!!!! Good Luck with them!!

I'm in New Jersey, and I've been getting lockups since late September. I don't have as many projects going as I'd like, but it's enough to keep my busy come hatching time
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Snakes:
1.1 gray banded kingsnake
1.1 california kingsnake
1.1 kenyan sand boa
1.1 western hognose snake
0.1 albino checkered garter
1.0 florida blue garter
1.1 het anery red sided garter
1.1 reverse oketee corn snake
1.1 blood red corn snake
0.1 amel striped corn
1.0 amel 66% het striped corn
1.1 het albino ball python
1.1 het ghost ball python
0.1 spider ball python
1.0 pastel ball python
1.1 mojave ball python
1.0 butter ball python
0.1 ringer ball python
1.0 African dinker ball python
0.3 normal ball python
1.0 piebald ball python
0.1 het piebald ball python
0.1 Genetic Stripe Ball Python
1.0 Het Genetic Stripe Ball Python
0.1 Mystic Ball Python

Turtles
1-eastern box turtle
2-spotted turtle
2-eastern/midland painted turtle intergrade
1.0-common musk turtle
1-Pink bellied sideneck
6-Northern red belly

Invertebrates
0.1 southern black widow
1-Tanzanian Giant Tailless whipscorpion

Amphibians
0.1 Ornate Horned Frog

Birds:
1.1 red avadavit
2-blue breasted cordon blue
1.1-black cheeked waxbill
0.1-star finch
1.0-Java rice sparrow
2.0-owl finch
1.0-hybrid munia
0.1-White bellied caique

Fish
2-corydoras cats
1-African upside down cat

normal stuff
0.1 black lab

And we have gotten 4 ovulations so far and will have atleast 40 more to go! So far...Champagne X Normal, Dinker X Dinker, Champagne X Hypo and Hypo Pastel X Pastel Het Hypo! Should be a good year!
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Sloan Reptiles
www.sloanreptiles.net

Pied to pied- Pied female will lay any day now.
DH VPI snow to same- DH for VPI snow female just ovulated.
Waiting on ovualtions from:
Pied to het pied female.
Pied to VPI axanthic female.
Lemon pastel to normal female x 2.

Cooling October, breeding started November.

Good luck!

Kevin

I think I'll bump it up a month next year. I would prefer to have early babies and give them a chance to put some weight on before they're shipped off, or if I plan on keeping them it could help them get to size a season earlier. Of course ultimately it's up to the female !!!!!!