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We feel so lucky everytime this happens and today was a good kick off for our 2005 season with 2 clutches laid this morning and more on the way!

This is a great example of waiting for your females to get big before breeding. She weighed over 2500 grams when we started breeding her for the first time, and she produced 11 EGGS weighing 1032 grams! She was purchased from a pet owner and is probably 4 to 5 years old.

Good luck to everyone for the 2005 seaon and it's great to see all these eggs and hatchlings coming so early this year.

Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles

here are the eggs.

Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles

Congratulations ladys, I hope you get several more before it's all said and done.

looking eggs. Congrats!
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Jay A. Martin

Congratulations, Debra & Diana! Very exciting times for sure. Best of luck with the rest!

Eric

DragonDavy

Very nice!
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Jim Perron
Python Passion Reptiles
pythonpassion@hotmail.com
www.pythonpassionreptiles.com

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Jim Perron
Python Passion Reptiles
pythonpassion@hotmail.com
www.pythonpassionreptiles.com

On this female we performed an Ultrasound on October 9th and saw 1.0 cm follicles at which time we placed her with the male and we observed breeding on that same day. We also placed her with and saw breeding on December 9th, then she went into a shed on January 14th, she shed on the 22nd and started staying on heat constantly until she laid.

I might also mention that she was placed with the male on several other dates however no other breeding was seen. We also performed several Ultrasounds to check follicle developement and saw what we thought were eggs developing in January and they were.

This is our first year using the Ultrasound and it's proving out be a great piece of equipment.

Debra
Camlon Reptiles

Good info Debra thanks........What a nice piece of equipment to have at your disposal. What did it cost you? Where do you get the portalble unit?
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Jim Perron
Python Passion Reptiles
pythonpassion@hotmail.com
www.pythonpassionreptiles.com

The cost was $5000 used and we got it from Cypress Creek, thanks Tom Carlton. It was a good investment.

Debra
Camlon Reptiles

Granite? or Cinnamon?
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1.0 Pied(04)(RDR)
1.0 Albino(04)(RDR)
0.1 Spider(04)(RDR)
3.2 Pastels(03's)(04's)(ASF,Graziani,Bell lines)
0.1 Yellow belly(unproven)(04)
1.3 Yellow belly(unproven)(02,03,04's)
2.0 100% HET CLOWN(04's)(MHMR)
3.3 100% het albinos(03's)(high contrast bell line)
0.1 poss Het Albino(03's)
2.0 100% het pieds(03's)(Vin Russo,CRE)
0.2 100% het pieds(03's)(04's)(RDR,TWL)
1.2 Poss het pieds(03's)(PETE KAHL)
2.1 Poss het pieds(00's)(01's) hoping to get PIEDS this year(Vin Russo, Pete Kahl)
25 Normal adult females
60 04 females
15 normal mixed 03's
20 Assorted weird ball pythons 04's

for once I can't wait for tax day (day 55)!

Debra
Camlon Reptiles

And she sure is a pretty granite mommy!.....What's the daddy??

Good luck with all your projects this season!

Thank you,

Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles

{quote}She weighed over 2500 grams when we started breeding her for the first time{/quote}

So how much did she weight right before or after laying? I'm wondering if she got up close to 3,000 grams or if she laid well over the expected 1/3 of her pre lay weight.

The weight I had on her prior to breeding was 2500 grams in October. Her weight yesterday after laying is 1968 grams, so with the eggs weight of 1032 grams she would have weighed exactly 3000 grams prior to laying. As a note this female has always been a good feeder and ate through December 2004.

I also attached an image of the belly of this female after I had removed and washed her, so the weight loose can be seen by those who haven't seen it before. We always get questions about females and how big they should be prior to breeding and this shows how much body fat they use producing eggs. She won't stay sucked in like this however until she puts the weight back on plus some her skin will sag slightly on the sides.

Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles

if i had known you had this beutiful girl, i would have sent ya my 5 year old male granite, and we could see what the supers are gonna be like. my granite proved genetic last year, now to wait and get his daughters ready for some breeding.

good luck on your litter there.

Mike