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We introduced one of our Pucallpa females to a new male this year.. and it looks like they got along fine (I'm thinking she's just easy).. This is from early this morning almost 1 hour after birth.

Stats.. 132 days POS, mom moved off the heat when the ambient temps in the room went over about 84 degrees (f) and never exhibited a mid-body temp of over 91... last meal was June 3rd. No slugs, imperfects or any problems. There's about 16 of them 19" long and very heavy.

She has produced some of the very best Yellow Pucallpa babies, the new male, also a Pucallpa snake, is darker, almost a so-called black boa, with a very strong and straight pattern.
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

a great thing to see. I'm curious as to why certain females drop really huge babies as apposed to most of what I see which is 15-20" little worms. I haven't seen to many of the powerfed bred at 3 years old BCC drop big babies.

My observations of this are that larger experienced moms will make comparatively larger babies. However, relative size and girth of newborns is tied to subspecies and to a lesser extent, locality. Certainly the environment must also have an impact.

BCC, especially of Peru have the largest neonates I've seen, some 25 inches or more and big and strong.

Thanks..
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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Mike Weitzman

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Joemac

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