These were born June 6th. I got to watch from the start of the females contractions. This is a first time for me to see the entire process , which was only about 20 minutes . I tried for 3 years to breed a male Leopard to a Chris Gilbert Hypo het Leopard, with no luck. So this season I bought a back-up het Leopard that was a half-brother to my male Leopard . This season, once again my Leopard wouldn't breed, but his half-bro did. The results were 22 babies - - -
2 Hypo Leopards
4 Leopards
7 Hypo pos het Leopards
9 pos het Leopards
4 Stills (2 normal , 1 Leo, 1 Hypo Leo ) - ouch !!!
0 Slugs
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Here's the mother - '08 Hypo Het Leopard (C. Gilbert production ) --
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IMG_4147 by munchang111, on Flickr
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I don't yet have any pics of the '10 Het father, but he is the half brother to this '09 girl of mine -
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IMG_1867 by munchang111, on Flickr
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Here's some of the litter in goo --
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IMG_1872 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1875 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1877 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1881 by munchang111, on Flickr
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. . . and a few of the nicer individuals
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IMG_1915 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1904 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1900 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1902 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1908 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1907 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1899 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1897 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1913 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1912 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1910 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1901 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1916 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1919 by munchang111, on Flickr
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And here are two of the Stillborn that hurt to see
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IMG_1891 by munchang111, on Flickr
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IMG_1893 by munchang111, on Flickr
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