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13 live healthy babies and one slug. Too messy to get photos of them in the cage. I will shoot some of them with mom after they get cleaned up.

But the messy shots are the best ones

Congrats!!!
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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

>>But the messy shots are the best ones

Are we still talking about snakes?

>>>>But the messy shots are the best ones
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>>Are we still talking about snakes?

I was but now that you mention it....
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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

With Dave, you can't always be sure what's running through his mind.

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Paul D

www.MoonlightBoas.com

Heyyyyy.... JEFF was the one that went somewhere else with it, NOT ME!

Jeeze, I get blamed for everything!! That's not fair, just because I'm usually guilty is no reason to assume....
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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

I did get this photo of a couple of them while they were still in the sacs. I had already broken the sacs open at their noses to get them breathing. Most stillborns are delivered already outside the sac. When that happens they may have had the sac broken during labor and drowned before they were delivered. I have seen just a few fullterm dead inside sacs and so I open sacs to get them breathing just in case. After they have their heads out and are breathing I try to leave them alone for a little while. As soon as they start breathing the umbilicals start closing off and if they can spend 30 minutes breathing without breaking the umbilical there will be very little if any blood loss when they start crawling around. Oftentimes they do not cooperate and start crawling just as soon as I break the sacs. Blood loss is usually not a problem even if they break the umbilical right away. Sometimes they are delivered in the sacs with very large masses of yolk not yet absorbed. Best results in that situation seem to be if you can open the sac in front of their noses so they can breath and then leave them alone to absorb yolk for as long as possible. This photo shows the wide dark markings on Peruvians.

This next photo is some of the babies with mom after I got them out of the cage and on paper towels to soak up some of the goo. This is another smallish five year old female. 13 live and one slug is an okay litter for snakes this size. She is one of my deeper red breeders.

Congrats Jeff! That female is gorgeous!
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Aubrey Ross

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