I had Ann on the "not gravid" list from this breeding season. She was not overly plump, slender in fact. When I checked for baby heartbeats with my fetal heart monitor, I could not find any. She was off food and I did witness multiple mating events including several tails wraps and what I thought at the time was an ovulation. From the mating activity, Visual ovulation and subsequent shed I had due 09/02 but like I said to begin with I had concluded she was not gravid.
Turns out I was wrong, she was gravid with a small litter. And to top it off, she delivered them ON her due date just to prove all those breeding events I witnessed were in fact what they looked like!
I found her out of the hide today and noticed she looked a little thinner than I thought she had been. I also noticed what looked like a baby in the hide. Cool!!
Pulled out the hide and found a fairly recently deposited litter of babies and slugs. Six babies and 5 slugs. The babies are fairly large at 35 grams each and great ratio of 2.4!!
Interesting piece of the genetic puzzle is the father is Baroque, one of my pearl animals and none of the babies are pearls. I was just discussing it earlier today and heard the pearls came from two Bullseyes that were bred together. So either line bred trait or maybe some variable expression co-dominant type trait?? Still needs a lot of work and breeding trials to determine how this phenotype is produced.
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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 (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
