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they are all feeding on frozen thawed large pinks! In a typical year, a very small percentage of the babies I produce take to f/t rodents rather easily. In most cases, however, I resort to such things as offering 1 day old quail, frog/toad scented pinks, live frogs, live fish, anything to get that first meal. Not this time....guess we all luck out once in a while. Rob

Don't scare me like that! I'm very glad to hear that all is ok!

Eric

but I'm glad they are doing so well for you.
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I know you'll keep records for different females as they produce young over the years. 2003 clutch all fed immediately after first shed on f/t pinks. That female skipped this year and I'm curious to see how her 2005 hatchlings feed. 2004 clutch from a different female has been mopre typical. Most started feeding when they got around to it on other snakes or cornsnake scented f/t pinks.

>>I know you'll keep records for different females as they produce young over the years. 2003 clutch all fed immediately after first shed on f/t pinks. That female skipped this year and I'm curious to see how her 2005 hatchlings feed. 2004 clutch from a different female has been mopre typical. Most started feeding when they got around to it on other snakes or cornsnake scented f/t pinks.

Steve,
Do you "rest" your females on alternate years or did she just fail to successfully breed this year?

It will be interesting to find out if the offspring of a particular female feed on rodents more readily than the offspring of another female.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Female Eastern which produced her first clutch in 2003 reetsed herself for 2004. She appeared to mate successfully a few times with a fertile male, swelled up, and eventually swelled down. I'm certainly hopeful for her for 2005.

Rob...of the 8 healthy babies I produced...all have fed on f/t (split nose) pinkies for their first meal, and they only hatched about 2 weeks ago!

This is truely a first for me. Usually, it's more like 10-20% !!