Well Sister Fingers finally laid. Not to be confused with Sister Skink or Mullet Fingers
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Eastern with Eggs
johnnic
Apr 11, 2012 04:25 PM
Replies (4)
VICtort
Apr 11, 2012 05:53 PM
Congratulations to both of you...from what I can see, those eggs look big, beautiful and likely fertile. Good luck and let us know what happens after about 110-120 days of nail biting. Vic
sethsmith
Apr 13, 2012 10:04 AM
Very nice! Good looking eggs and thats
a beautiful female.
Congratulations!
Seth
johnnic
Apr 17, 2012 09:16 AM
Just a bit of info to help the others out there working with them. She went 22-23 days post shed before laying. Stopped feeding extremely early (ate only once the shed BEFORE the pre egg laying shed and one time after the pre egg laying shed). Her diet consisted of about 70% poultry/30% rodents and a couple of green frogs in the summer for treats. Diet heavily supplemented with vitamins, calcium, etc... She was a young female (CB 08'). Passed all her eggs (fertile/infertile) without an issue in a 12 hour time span. Drank a ton of water and fed the night after she shed. Lineage was Binnig with the origins of the line orignially from EBV/Huffaker/Seib. Unrelated sire was from another breeder.
tbrophy
Apr 17, 2012 10:13 AM
Really interesting information to have on diet. I went through a couple of egg-binding experiences with an eastern female many years ago and it was not a pleasant experience for her (nor me). She was fed exclusively on mice and rats. I am picking up another indigo soon and I will definitely add poultry and supplements to the diet. Also road-killed snakes (frozen/thawed of course). Cannot help but to think it is a good idea for an animal thank eats literally everything it can in the wild.
