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As you can see from this pic, there are a couple of sets of twins. Now that most are pipped or out of the egg, we discovered that we actually have 6 sets of twins!!!!And the clutch was only 10 eggs!!!
I have never ever heard of a twinning rate this high. Anyone else have multiple twinning stories to share? Whatever the species, I'd love to herar about them.

All these extra babies could not have happened to a better clutch of West Papuans!

-Yasser

Spitfire Reptiles

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I have produced over 20 clutches of carpet eggs and NEVER had a twin hatching???!! What kinda fertility drugs are you using?!
Boy did you get lucky!!!!

Congrats Yasser!
That has to be a record.

Gary

I've had twins twice from the same female Irian Jaya. Only problem I had with that is that the twins are quite a bit smaller than their siblings and take quite some time to even start to catch up. They were more difficult to get started as well.
But that is my experience, you may have more luck. Good luck with all those twins.
Ron

>>As you can see from this pic, there are a couple of sets of twins. Now that most are pipped or out of the egg, we discovered that we actually have 6 sets of twins!!!!And the clutch was only 10 eggs!!!
>>I have never ever heard of a twinning rate this high. Anyone else have multiple twinning stories to share? Whatever the species, I'd love to herar about them.
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>>All these extra babies could not have happened to a better clutch of West Papuans!
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>>-Yasser
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>>Spitfire Reptiles
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Congrats to say the least!! That is awesome. Maybe I can help foster one of them. Are you coming to Daytona this year? I wasn't able to meet you last year.

Matt

I am sure the little twins will give me some issues but I will do my best to try to keep them thriving.
From what I have found, it seems to be the highest twinning rate ever recorded in pythons. The only twins we ever had before these was one set of corn snakes...and they died just barely out of the egg.
Sorry Matt, but we are hermits! We have kids, dogs and lots of snakes to take care of so it is quite hard for us to go out and do much of anything for even one day lol! So Daytona is a ways off for us. I guess I need a few more gray hairs before I can go.

-Yasser

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That is awesome! Possibly silly question, but are any of them identical twins?
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0.1 chickens (Condor)
0.2 dog mutts (half ownership, only mine when they misbehave, Lucy & Amy)
0.1 Halflinger horse (Crissy)
0.1 Normal phase California Kingsnake (Sophia)
1.1 parents
Still searching for 1.0 WC human

Each set of twins was the same sex. That can be a clue but not neccesarily. They have to share the same yolk to be identical. At times there can be essentially two eggs (two yolks) that end up shelled into one egg. Those would produce fraternal twins.
But even identical twins do not have the same pattern like most would think.

-Yasser
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