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Hypo Half Dwarfs

ArtInScales Sep 25, 2010 10:32 PM

We produced eggs this year from a dwarf to a hypo female, but all the babies died in the egg about a week before they were due to hatch. I couldn't stand to wait another year to try again, so Tom Reagan was kind enough to do some trading with me to get these beauties.


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Randy and Michelle
Art In Scales
(719) 439-4199
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Replies (3)

HappyHillbilly Sep 26, 2010 01:50 PM

Beautiful snakes! Congratulations!

You folks are gonna keep on until you draw me into the dwarves/half dwarves, ain't ya? You're a gettin' close!

Later!
Mike
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Kelly_Haller Sep 29, 2010 12:00 AM

Randy,
Any ideas behind the loss of an entire egg clutch at such a late stage in the incubation period. Equipment, developmental or genetic?

Kelly

ArtInScales Oct 01, 2010 05:02 PM

I'm not sure what caused it. Shortly after the eggs died, we also lost a half dwarf het albino granite cluch the same way. We hatched a half dwarf clutch that was sitting on the shelf right next to the ones that died and they had no problems.

We were talking to someone about guinea pigs from RP. He mentioned that he quit using them after he lost several clutches within a week of hatching. All our burms have been eating guinea pigs for several years. We immediately quit using guinea pigs.

We got a clutch from another one of our half dwarf het albino granite girls in July. All the eggs hatched and the babies are doing fine. She had eaten only guinea pigs before she ovulated, so I have no clue what caused the eggs to die.
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Randy and Michelle
Art In Scales
(719) 439-4199
info@artinscales.com

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