I did not get into the snake room until 8 this morning. I found that one of my Peruvian locale snakes had laid a small litter with 7 live, 1 stillborn and 4 slugs. The babies are healthy and have nice bright crescents like both of their parents. First two photos show mom with the litter. Photos of mom with the litter in the nest box were staged. Most of the babies and mom were already out of the nest box where the litter had been laid when I found them. Third photo shows the father of the litter.
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Small Litter
Jeff Clark
Aug 29, 2011 10:27 AM
Replies (6)
rainbowsrus
Aug 29, 2011 10:51 AM
Congrats, any litter with healthy babies is a good one!!!
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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 
natsamjosh
Aug 29, 2011 07:30 PM
Congrats on the litter, Jeff. One day I will get one of these guys from you, I think the Peruvian locale's are my favorite mainland rainbow.
Jeff Clark
Aug 30, 2011 05:11 PM
All 7 ate live pinky rats today. I am not sure why but some litters are born with fat bellies like they have just eaten. It is probably the last of the yolk material that gets absorbed over the last few days of gestation. Other litters like this one the babies look like they are born with empty bellies. The thinner ones seems to alsways eat just as soon as you offer them something.
rainbowsrus
Aug 30, 2011 05:24 PM
Seen the same over the years and am totally convinced the larger bellies are the remaining yolk and those babies are not hungry as soon as the thinner ones.
Not always but they also seem to take a day or two longer to shed.
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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
waspinator421
Sep 02, 2011 10:58 AM
Congrats Jeff!
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Aubrey Ross
Jeff Clark
Sep 02, 2011 12:33 PM
>>I did not get into the snake room until 8 this morning. I found that one of my Peruvian locale snakes had laid a small litter with 7 live, 1 stillborn and 4 slugs. The babies are healthy and have nice bright crescents like both of their parents. First two photos show mom with the litter. Photos of mom with the litter in the nest box were staged. Most of the babies and mom were already out of the nest box where the litter had been laid when I found them. Third photo shows the father of the litter.
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