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Boa DOUBLE CLUTCH!.............

RioBravoReptiles Jul 16, 2004 06:55 AM

..... well, not exactly..

This was the scene in the boa-room last evening. Cay Caulker boas, half sisters, both bred by their grandfather, the gorgeous wild-collected black adult with white ventrals. These are technically F1 Caulker Cay boas.

Out of two litters, not one slug, the earlier one did have one non-viable.
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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

Replies (7)

CE Jul 16, 2004 07:38 AM

did you have both females and the male together during breeding ? Just curious , wondering if environmental conditions convinced them both to drop on the same day? or did they ovulate together?

RioBravoReptiles Jul 16, 2004 10:06 AM

I placed the two females and the male together in a 4' Neo, plenty of room for all. They did appear to ovulate almost simultaneously, but the old guy got the job done. Normally you would not trust one male to successfully breed two females ovulating so close together.. I guess experience counts!

There is no weather phenomenon in sight.. high pressure dome, no showers, heat and breezy.. I have my doubts personally that there is any statistically significant proof that boas drop during rainstorms or whatever, it has a lot more to do with when they breed and ovulate and the temps they maintain during incubation. In other words, boas here breed during certain periods (predominantly) and because of husbandry practices and the natural period of time involved, they have babies in late Spring and Summer which is the time of year we get storms. But that is just my observation.

Here's something for you.. I had a really big year with these several years ago before I started selling and trading breeders.. seven females 2WC, 5F1s, all gave birth in a 30 hour period.. , three males did the breeding and ovulation in the group appeared to occur over a ten or twelve day time-frame.

It was raining.. raining boas!

Gus

Jonathan_Brady Jul 16, 2004 07:40 AM


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Jonathan Brady
"Sarcasm is angers ugly cousin" -Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) in "Anger Management".

bcijoe Jul 16, 2004 08:00 AM

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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

SRX Jul 16, 2004 03:36 PM

Gus,
What are the dimensions of those Neo's(for size reference)?
Just curious,
Scott

kennethzweerink Jul 16, 2004 05:20 PM

NP

Hoppy Jul 16, 2004 08:16 PM

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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

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