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Looks like Linda's jinx is lifted. She sent me a nice email yesterday about a baby I have on hold for her, and was asking about the last gravid female I have been pulling my hair out waiting for. She included several "good vibes" Well, I guess that was what the female was waiting for. Found a very nice litter this morning. Still pulling babies but looks like 26 babies and 5 slugs. I'll post some pics later.

Final tally for 2005:
135 babies from 6 litters
1 bad litter no babies
All the moms are fine

Interesting side note, I bred as 1.4 and 1.3 this year. The bad litter was one of the 1.3 ! The male from the 1.4 produced 90 babies this year, what a stud!!
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 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)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave,
...Those stats are amazingly good. In many years of doing this I had one year that had similar excellent results. In 1997 I had seven litters with 138 live babies total. This year I have had just over 100 babies out of 10 litters. Two of those ten litters had no live babies in them. Two litters had small numbers of live babies. I also lost one gravid female to what must have been an internal injury and resultant infection. Overall I am happy with this year. I have had worse ones. If that stud male needs a Christmas and New Years vacation with some horny lady BRBs you can send him this way.
Jeff

>>Looks like Linda's jinx is lifted. She sent me a nice email yesterday about a baby I have on hold for her, and was asking about the last gravid female I have been pulling my hair out waiting for. She included several "good vibes" Well, I guess that was what the female was waiting for. Found a very nice litter this morning. Still pulling babies but looks like 26 babies and 5 slugs. I'll post some pics later.
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>>Final tally for 2005:
>>135 babies from 6 litters
>>1 bad litter no babies
>>All the moms are fine
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>>Interesting side note, I bred as 1.4 and 1.3 this year. The bad litter was one of the 1.3 ! The male from the 1.4 produced 90 babies this year, what a stud!!
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
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>>0.1 Wife
>>0.2 kids
>>4.12.100 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)
>>1.0 BCI albino het stripe
>>1.0 BCI salmon hypo
>>0.1 BCI ghost
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Needless to say I'm tickled pink about this year. Too bad they all couldn't be this good. As for my studly male, he only takes summer vacations. This spring it'll be back to work for him!! Rough job that he has, taking care of all the ladies. I think I'll throw him a few extra rats for all his hard work..

For me it's just been growing and growing.

2000 2.4 bred, mostly slug outs and one good litter (21 I think)
2001 2.4 bred, mostly slug outs and one good litter (23 I think)
2002 2.4 bred, all slugs
2003 2.4 bred, a few small litters 36 total
2004 2.6 bred, (including two holdbacks from 2001) 5 small litters and one monster total 83
2005 2.7 bred, (added one adult female, very red) 6 great litters (total 136) and one dud litter, all still/slug

as promised pics:

The litter as dropped in the moist hide box:

A pic of mom gravid taken on 08/25 She didn't really change since.

Mom after all her hard work. I'm always amazed by how much they lose all at one fell swoop. Notice the mid body bulge where all her internal organs are still displaced followed by a collapsed area where her skin actually folds over. This is normal for post delivery and her organs are probably already back to normal locations. She definitely needs some food but I'll wait a day or two for her to rest.

close-up of the skin fold, kind of like a flat tire.

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.136 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)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

You've had an incrediable year with those BRB's. I hope that latest Mom gets a nice warm winter. I find it fascinating how those females fair as well as they do when they go through so much. Can you imagine the complaining a human woman would do while pregnant (or not for that matter) after missing 48 hours of meals? I start to get concerned in about 4 hours and I am well fed. Congrats on your newest litter. Probably should send mine on out first of next week before it gets any colder. Everything seems okay since the mysterious sudden death of the yearling. Still don't know what happened.

Linda

That's fantastic! Congratulations and then some....

Chris O
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