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Here is the giant litter of 29 babies. All are normals, some with fat crescents from daddy's genes. There are also a small number with little to no side striping on their heads. The center stripe is unchanged, but the ones on either side are gone.... so strange...
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Aubrey Ross
Wow, some of those babies are really interesting looking. I think the lack of 'head pattern' is interesting.
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John Wiseman
www.rainbowsbydesign.com
18.30 BRBs (as of 6-20-2012)
3.8 others
Thanks John! Keeping a pair just for giggles.
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Aubrey Ross
Nice crescents and yeah, interesting with only the single main head stripe.
Makes me think of military insignia with one stripe being Private.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
LOL, didn't think of that. Does that make the rest of them first officers? (Ok that's from aviation... don't know about the military, lol!)
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Aubrey Ross
Nice litter, that's going to be a lot of little rodent meals!
Charlie
Tell me about it... with this litter on top of 50 others already from this year, I'm having a hard time getting enough live feeders for them all. My supplier can't keep up! Good problems to have, I suppose. 
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Aubrey Ross
Do you buy all your feeder stuff, or do you raise some of it yourself?
One of the great things to me about rainbows's is the baby's aren't picky feeders and have some size to them compared to a lot of other snakes. I knew to expect my litter due sometime around august, so back around the end of may, early june, I was setting up a few new rat cages so that by the time the babies were born, I could start pulling plenty of rat pinkys as soon they hit the ground instead of waiting for mice to grow into the size I wanted to feed.
At least having a little bit of a rodent shortage problem means you're having a great year though! lol
Charlie
Unfortunately I have to buy all my feeders, frozen or live, as I don't have the space. Frozen isn't too bad, it's the live that gets me. They are expensive, even at my reptile specialty store! Oh well, its the price to get the little stinkers established.
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Aubrey Ross
Cliff, does your female have reduced stripes or none at all? I have seen (and have a couple in my collection) some out there with broken and reduced sides stripes on the head. These are the first I have seen completely lacking them.
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Aubrey Ross
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