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Been scratching my head on Wendy, had her due date as 10/09 along with several others and all the rest delivered including Minnie who was due on the 13th. Not that she's oh so late but that she's shown zero signs of being close to drop. Been in her hide for weeks and not coming out, no waxy stool, none of the normal signs I expect to see from an almost ready to deliver female.

Looked back at my records and realized I entered her shed date wrong into my due date spreadsheet.

Revised due date is 11/05, much more in line with her actions to date!!

OOppsss
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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

Of course, the last one makes you wait a whole month longer to finish the season. I suppose this can be seen as a good thing, as it means your season won't be finished for a while yet!!
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Aubrey Ross

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www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

Yeah, and maybe I can make room for the babies before they get here?
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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

>>Records are one of those funny things: no one *likes* putting the time and effort in, and 95% or more of the time they go unused...but when something *does* go wrong, good records can make the difference between a quick and accurate diagnosis and loosing an animal.
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I wholeheartedly agree!! Each and every one of my snakes, adults, subadults, babies, here visiting for a while etc. has it's own record card. I expend a lot of time and energy keeping up on them and yeah, I know I miss some entries. Busy cleaning and forget to enter a shed, feed a rack and forget to mark all the cards etc. For the most part though, every feed and shed is recorded. Anything odd is also recorded. During breeding season I have a secondary card for recording all breeding related activity.

And yeah, for the most part I don't go back and use this data. But, (there's always a "but" when I do, I find it invaluable. This latest event would not have been earth shattering. She couldn't care less about missing my miscalculated due date. When she's ready, she will drop her litter just like her ancestors have done for millennia without our help. Being able to figure out it was my mistake now is a huge relief to my piece of mind. Now I know she's right on track and I have to wait a bit longer for those last babies. Without those records to fall back on and find my mistake, I would have gone nuts over the next few weeks worrying about what was wrong.
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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

>>95% of the time it's landfill

Move into the electronic age.

All my data is in an Excel spreadsheet. I record feeding, refusal, shed, and weight. I really need to do a lot more weights -- I just recently bought a dedicated scale for the snakes, so I need to get busy and get more data!
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1.2 Peruvian rainbow boas (Amaru, Asiru, Kulipsa)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
1.3.1 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Chakar, Hari, Saksak)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (Mora)
2.4.4 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters