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I got home from work and found 14 perfect eggs from my Lake City female that was bred to my 03 monster male. The male is already almost 4 feet long and is still growing. He is a locale C.B. Georgia male and is very nice looking with clean white cross bands. Here is a pic of the mother. I don't have my camera for pics of the eggs cuz I let someone borrow it.
Later Jason

"it's BUTCHIE"

Man he is getting big. How long are your pair now?

After I got 2 good eggs out of a bigger Goini female you have no idea how happy I am to get a perfect clutch out of mommy. I am hopeing that I don't have a screwed up year. Ever since my snake room over heated my first night in Chicago I have been stressed. Out of four clutches I have had 41 eggs and only 31 good eggs. That is way down for my average. On the bright side 3 of the 4 are on their first year. On the bright side my hondos and everglades are begining to swell and my Grey band female is gooing to lay in the next few days.
Later Jason

Don't know exactly how long they are, but i do know they're growing like CRAZY, especialy when i remember how tiny they used to be, Best of luck this hatching season.

I am so T I R E D of your "in hand feeding pics".

I don't own the forum and you have every right to post whatever you want... but please - consider posting without the dead mice going down your snake's throats and draped all over your hands.

Your pictures would probably be better received.

Just a thought,

Peter

i'm pleased you don't own kingsnake.com, and i hope all your hatchlings are strong pinkie eaters this year.

... That is a nice sentiment.

I wish you good luck this year and many more tattoo's on your arms.

- Peter

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Jetzen,
I don't think any of us would want to ban your right to post such pictures, even if we owned KS.
But Peter shared a thought that had occurred to me before so i figured i'd at least let you know there's more than one person feeling that way.
I think my objection is that your pictures give the impression your animals are toys to you...that if you were on the python forum all your ball python pix would be of animals hung around your neck. I guess i'm waiting for you to post pix of your snakes with little bibs, maybe other clothes on them too. Jewelry maybe, or seated around a little snake-family table.
Maybe the audience here is a little more used to the fact that snakes eat rodents, and a little more interested in genetics and reproduction and details of proper care, whereas some of the snake-feeding pix look like they'd reach a more intrigued audience on an AOL board somewhere, where other kids are posting pix of their chihauahas with hats on, or their kittens peaking out of their purses. I'm just betting that within a year or two you'll have lost the desire to post only "hand feeding" pix.
I speak partly in jest, obvioiusly, and that's because i'm not trying to offend. But i DO also think your pix would be better received if some of them, at least, simply showed some of your very beautiful animals, no "ooh lookit" angles to them, just appreciation for the snakes themselves.
I realize this perhaps exposes my biases and nothing else. But when I first started keeping snakes as a kid, it was fascinating to see them eat and i think i sometimes fed them more for my own entertainment than as a part of proper animal care. People keep snakes for different reasons. I'm sure there's a number of college guys who collect an audience when it's time to drop a live rodent into their snake's cage. I just think there're also a lot of people who would quietly feed their animals, and who--for the snake's sake and maybe even a little out of compassion for the rodents--would feed frozen or fresh killed instead of live, and would be less fascinated by the "spectacle" of it. Maybe it's just a matter of audience, and different audiences reacting differently.
peace
terry

>>I am so T I R E D of your "in hand feeding pics".
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>>I don't own the forum and you have every right to post whatever you want... but please - consider posting without the dead mice going down your snake's throats and draped all over your hands.
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>>Your pictures would probably be better received.
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>>Just a thought,
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>>Peter

sister to above(eating a F.T.)

thanks for looking and i'll be posting more feeding pics when i'm not too busy

Is that the male you used the one from Mardi ? He sounds like he is lickin at the heels of my GA male I measured him at 49.50" last night ! I swear nuttin is more impressive than a fast growing King are a big Indigo Eating Eastern King thats a 6-7 footer ! Post a pic of that male if you have one. Also put me down for a pair.

Keith
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Yes he is the male from Mardi, but I am not going to put you down for any. You are gonna want the ones I am waiting on. I got one of the females from the same clutch as the male up to breeding size and I am hopeing on eggs from her soon. She is a nice thin banded female that is bone white on blue black and I can't wait. I just hope I don't curse myself by talking about the eggs before I get them. Of course I guess I can send you pics when they all hatch and let you decide. Maybe Oh yeah I am kinda lazy so what the county locale again for these. I can't remember where I wrote it down LOL
Later Jason

Hell Yeah EVEN BETTER !!!!! Did you ever send me a pic of her ? Ill have to look. Im working on a "Giant Eastern Project" so these would be a welcome addition to the project.

Keith
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The pic above is of the female. It is a younger pic and the red from when she was a baby has cleared to nice white. I won't get my camera back for at least a week. I will get a nice pic of the male when I get it back.
Later Jason