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Hey everyone,

It’s been ages since I’ve been able to post on here. My boa baby season finally got started today. I left for work this morning and no babies born yet. I came home this afternoon from work at around 5:30pm and found a litter of sunglows, albinos, hypos and normals. I know, I know, nothing new and groundbreaking, but I still say that finding any sort of baby boas is downright exciting. Nothing like seeing little, squirmy baby boas taking their first breath.

Mom is a 2000 DH Sunglow X Sire(s) are 2005 Het Albino brothers. This is the Mom's third litter (she had some super sunglows for me in 2007, including a paradox possible super sunglow), and she was great throughout her gestation. The babies were born on day 105 POS. Final count: 13 Hypos 66% poss DH Sunglow, 6 Normals 66% poss Het Albino, 6 Albinos, 3 Sunglows, and 1 slug.

Unfortunately, there is some bad news. One of the hypos was DOA and one of the sunglows has a strange birth defect that I’ve never encountered with boas before. This sunglow has what looks like a cleft palette. It looks pretty sluggish and so I don’t think it’s going to make. However, the remainder of the litter looks healthy and full term with no yolk bellies.

Here are some shots of the entire litter when I found them and removed some layers of newspaper.

Here’s some “close-ups” of some of the litter.

Here’s a tub shot after removing the babies from the breeder rack.

Here are some shots of the albinos and sunglows.

Last but not least, the hypos 66% poss dh sunglow:

Hope you enjoyed. Mom is doing fine and she ate a XL rat with no hesitation.

Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone on the rest of the season.

Jay

Awesome! Hot sunglows. New babies are always groundbreaking

I'm still waiting to produce some someday
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Thanks Jessica,

I appreciate the kind words. Baby sunglows and albinos will always be an amazing sight for me.

Thanks again,
Jay

Nothing better than finding a litter of boas! Congrats on a nice litter...
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Congrats again Jay! That's awesome! Babies look great as always.

Hopefully I'll get a better look at them soon

Hi Jay,

Congrats on that big litter! They look great, very clean!
-April
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