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Just thought I would post a pic of our female brazilian, she is just starting her ovulation tonite! Poor girl looks so uncomfortable, not the best pic but you can see the scale separation mid body pretty well. She is doing it 3 days earlier than last year so if everything goes well we should get babies in early May. Last year was her first litter 31 babies!
thanks for looking
Chris

Nice picture. Congratulations and at the same time, damn you all and your early clutches! Mine should be copulating just about the time your babies are born

Mike

A real looker as well......love her crescents! Good luck!

BTW - 31 babies? WOW!

Chris O
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Yeh
We are really happy with her looks, ovulation is over now and she is back to normal...now the waiting game!
She had 31 babies last year plus one still born and 3 slugs. I snapped a pretty cool pic of her with the babies just after she gave birth you can check it out at our website under the collection page if you want.
thanks
Chris
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....I understand it is NOT everyday one actually catches a BRB ovulation.

Linda

Chris,

Have you counted the elapsed time between ovulation and parturition before?
Just curious if we know this for rainbows. I have found that in Erycine boas, the date of ovulation is the good predictor of the date of parturition since there isn't a predicatable pre-birth shed. For example, my experience with Rubber boas is that they generally give birth right around 80 days past ovulation. Desert Sandboas give birth around 90-95 days after ovulation. I don't have much data so far, but what I have is reasonably consistent within a species.

Any data on Rainbows?
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Chris,
...I usually miss seeing ovulation in my BRBs. I watch them pretty close during breeding season and I am sure that many of them ovulate without noticeably swelling up. On the other hand I have a few times seen enormous ovulation swellings. When I have seen it has been before during or after breeding (lots of variability here) and I have not paid attention to the date. I do pay attention to mating dates and usually mine lay around 5.5 months after last observed mating.
Jeff

>>Chris,
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>>Have you counted the elapsed time between ovulation and parturition before?
>>Just curious if we know this for rainbows. I have found that in Erycine boas, the date of ovulation is the good predictor of the date of parturition since there isn't a predicatable pre-birth shed. For example, my experience with Rubber boas is that they generally give birth right around 80 days past ovulation. Desert Sandboas give birth around 90-95 days after ovulation. I don't have much data so far, but what I have is reasonably consistent within a species.
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>>Any data on Rainbows?
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>>Chris Harrison
>>San Antonio, Texas

Hey Chris
I am just going by what this particular snake did in the past, last year she ovulated on Christmas day after being bred several times in the 4 to 6 weeks prior to that. Same pattern this year except she ovulated 3 days earlier. She gave birth last year on May 9th, so I am expecting babies in early May once again. I guess we will see if my timeline holds true or not. In the previous post Jeff listed a host of variables that I didnt take into consideration, so I could be way off on my assumptions. We mainly breed pythons and usually count days from ovulation to pre-lay shed to egg laying so I assumed the same logic would apply. I guess we will see.
Thanks
Chris

Swelling is Goood.... Keeping my fingers crossed for you....and me for that matter...LOL

Would love to see her mate as well..Keep those pics commin...
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