This is my first year breeding balls, only two clutches to get my feet wet.
First clutch was het Caramel x het Caramel and didn't go so great. Only ended up with 3 poss het babies from a 9 egg clutch, there were 3 caramel babies who were too deformed and kinked to survive. The other 3 eggs went bad. Thankfully the 3 poss het babies are doing really good at least.
Second clutch was a dark Dinker African import x her Pastel son. She laid 3 eggs.The eggs were stuck together with two on the bottom and one on the top. The top egg started to dent really bad and right abound day 60 I just couldn't take it anymore and cut it open, something I vowed not to do. As it turns out the liquid inside had started to turn hard and the babies head was stuck in the hard part. He (or she) never could have freed himself on his own and would have died. So it turned out was good thing I did get anxious. I worked at it until I got his head free, but he was still attached to his yolk so needed to stay in the egg.
A couple days later he got impatient and tried to come out, got himself totally covered in pearlite. Was still attached to his egg so I tried to put him back in but it was a losing battle.
I read a post where someone said to tie off the chord with floss if a baby has too much so in a last ditch effort to save this poor little baby I did that. Got him rinsed off and safely away from the pearlite.
He's doing good so far, is alert and active. This all happened last night so I don't know that we are out of the woods yet but I think this lucky little baby has a good chance at least. I'm greatful for whomever posted the floss suggestion in another post as I would not have come up with that idea on my own and don't know what I would have done last night w/out having that information.
Here are a couple pics of the baby. I'll post more once the other two are out of their eggs. I can see them and they both look good, will probably be out sometime over the weekend.
They both look like the one who is out. I think all 3 are Pastels like their Daddy.
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Ball Pythons
1.1 100% het Caramel Albinos (Edward & Bella)
0.1 66% ph Caramel Albino (Rosalie)
0.1 Caramel Albino (Bellatrix)
1.0 Butterscotch Ghost (Nick)
1.0 Honey Bee (Aragog)
0.1 Pastel Orange Ghost (Nagini)
0.1 Spider 66% ph Ghost(Nymphadora)
1.1 Mojaves (Lucius & Renesme)
0.1 Pastel Lesser (Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
0.1 Lemonblast (Luna)
0.1 Blond Pastel (Katie)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.1 Normal (Madame Olympe Maxime)
0.0.3 Baby 66% ph Caramel Albinos (Edward x Bella)
0.0.3 Eggs in the incubator (Jasper x Esme)
Corns
1.1 het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Bloodred (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Bloodred poss het Anery Lav (Tumnus)
0.1 Anery Lav (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma (Victoria)
0.1 Opal (Jewel)
0.0.22 Babies (Romeo x Juliet)
0.0.18 Babies (Tumnus x Lucy)
Hogs
1.0 Albino Western (Hogwarts)
0.1 het Albino Western (Hufflepuff)
0.1 Tri Color (Molly)
