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Two came out of their hideboxes to bask this Sunday, getting nice and plump. Waiting like an expectant father, still a couple of months to go though

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
12.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
1.0 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

First pic was F7, two of her 2004 babies:

Second pic was bullseye (named for her first back pattern) and here are two of her 2004 babies:

Looking forward to lots of beautiful rainbows again this year
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
12.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
1.0 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

>>Two came out of their hideboxes to bask this Sunday, getting nice and plump. Waiting like an expectant father, still a couple of months to go though

>>Thanks,

>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

Oh, pretty mommas! I hope you get lots of good pictures of the eggs and babies when they get here!
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This'll be my first birthing season with a good digital camera, I expect I'll be flooding the board when the time comes. Got seven in the oven this year including a new very bright red female
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
12.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
1.0 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

>>Oh, pretty mommas! I hope you get lots of good pictures of the eggs and babies when they get here!
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>>~ Noel ~

Ok, I was very kindly informed by Chris that BRBs don't lay eggs! What delightful information! Thank you, Chris. After feeling VERY silly, and ok, because I am anal, I had to look up the new term I learned.

Our Rainbows are ovoviviparous (pronunciation: oh-voh-veye-vip-uh-russ).

Adj. 1. oviparous - egg-laying
o•vip•a•rous
adj.
Producing eggs that hatch outside the body.

Adj. 1. ovoviviparous - producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
o•vo•vi•vip•a•rous
adj.
Producing eggs that hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it. Used of certain fishes and reptiles and many invertebrates.

I just love learning new things!

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can be the cart/horse type thing, do the eggs hatch first or does the snake lay them first. Of the litters I have seen born, several of the babies came out as complete eggs. Very thin, translucent membrane but clearly encasing the snake. Also saw several come out loose, not encased in the egg. I don't know which is more common.

Two thoughts:
1. The early ones "hatching" inside the mom trigger the birthing process. (I think probable)

2.The laying process sometimes pops the egg?
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
12.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
1.0 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

This is a birthing pic from last year's litter. The baby in the middle is just stretching to burst through it's membrane. This is one of my favorite shots.

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>>This is a birthing pic from last year's litter. The baby in the middle is just stretching to burst through it's membrane. This is one of my favorite shots.
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>> When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the student is ready, the teachers appears.

>>This is a birthing pic from last year's litter. The baby in the middle is just stretching to burst through it's membrane. This is one of my favorite shots.

Awe ... ~sigh~ That is great. Thank you for sharing!!!

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Noel,
...The feature that we see on an egg that is most obvious so that we typically recognize it as an egg is the shell. Egg shells in egg laying reptiles and birds are actually produced by the shell gland relatively late in the reproductive process. If you open up a dead gravid egg laying snake you will often find the eggs without shells. Before the embrionic snakes grow very large the eggs look very much like and have a texture much like the yolk of a hen's egg. If the egg mass does not get fertilized or the embryo dies the snake lays a slug. Slugs which are dead or unfertilized egg masses also look much like the yolk of a hen's egg except that they are often dried out and are usually moderatley hard. The analogy to this in egg laying snakes are infertile or dead eggs. Unfertilized or dead eggs from oviparous species usually look different than viable live eggs at the time of oviposition. They will also begin to decompose and become malodorous very quickly. Live eggs are highly bacteriostatic and dead ones are not. Your confusion about Rainbow Boa reproduction may be partly my fault. I have in the past mentioned eggs and egg masses in gravid Boas here on the forum. This terminology is correct but you have to forget about the typically recognized features and characteristics of eggs, especially the shell and external incubation.
Jeff

>>>>Oh, pretty mommas! I hope you get lots of good pictures of the eggs and babies when they get here!
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>>>>~ Noel ~
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>>Ok, I was very kindly informed by Chris that BRBs don't lay eggs! What delightful information! Thank you, Chris. After feeling VERY silly, and ok, because I am anal, I had to look up the new term I learned.
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>>Our Rainbows are ovoviviparous (pronunciation: oh-voh-veye-vip-uh-russ).
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>>Adj. 1. oviparous - egg-laying
>>o•vip•a•rous
>>adj.
>>Producing eggs that hatch outside the body.
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>>Adj. 1. ovoviviparous - producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
>>o•vo•vi•vip•a•rous
>>adj.
>>Producing eggs that hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it. Used of certain fishes and reptiles and many invertebrates.
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>>I just love learning new things!
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>>~ Noel ~
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>>My Photos
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>>Two came out of their hideboxes to bask this Sunday, getting nice and plump. Waiting like an expectant father, still a couple of months to go though
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
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>>0.1 Wife
>>0.2 kids
>>12.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
>>1.1 Ball python
>>1.0 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
>>1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
>>0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
>>0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

np
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Can't wait to see them!
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Hey Caitlin, how are the babies doing?
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats