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Came home from a day trip Friday night to find nine new little o we exploring the cage! No slugs, mom looks healthy and ate right away. Have tried to feed a round of pinkys (what I had on hand) only three of the six have eaten so far. This is my first attempt at breeding, so I'm still pretty green. Will continue to offer food each evening. Any suggestions, or tips in troubleshooting? I guess I had an idealistic assumption that the babies would be ravenous!
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Desiderata Baby!

1.0 '08 BRB "Orion"
0.1 '07? BRB "Cassiopea"
0.1 '09 Cal King. "Pandora"
0.1 '09 Apricot Hondo "Speckles"
1.0 '08 Tang. Hondo "Bates"
0.0.1 '09 Eastern Garter winter refugee "Jumper"
2.1 '08 Domestic Ferrets "Hobbs, Meenu & Stash"
0.2 '95 & '99 Homo Sapiens, feline recessive

Congrats and welcome to the club!!

Only advice I can add from here is I only offer food once a week. They either eat or they don't. Depending on how full term the litter is, they can either eat right away or take up to a few weeks to start feeding.
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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

Thanks Dave! Reassuring to not be a nervous ninny! The sire is your An-Ph22. Beautiful babies! I'll get pics out as soon as I find a new site for URL's. lots of bullseyes!
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Desiderata Baby!

1.0 '08 BRB "Orion"
0.1 '07? BRB "Cassiopeia"
0.0.9 '13 BRB
0.1 '09 Cal King. "Pandora"
0.1 '09 Apricot Hondo "Speckles"
0.2 '95 & '99 Homo Sapiens, feline recessive

Welcome to the club!!! Lets see some pics of your new babies. In addition to what Dave said, don’t be overly concerned if they all don’t start eating right away. Over the years I have had littermates that ate the first day and some that took up to a month to take that first meal.
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John Wiseman
www.rainbowsbydesign.com

18.30 BRBs (as of 6-20-2012)
3.8 others

Thanks for the pep fellas! Still trying to figure out the tech stuff. I used to use Flikr for photo mgmt, and am at a loss as to where to turn now that the service is limited. Resizing seems to be my biggest issue. Pics taken from my iPhone are too large to upload. Going to hit the "how to" section here shortly. Happy hump day! ^.^
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Desiderata Baby!

1.0 '08 BRB "Orion"
0.1 '07? BRB "Cassiopeia"
0.0.9 '13 BRB
0.1 '09 Cal King. "Pandora"
0.1 '09 Apricot Hondo "Speckles"
0.2 '95 & '99 Homo Sapiens, feline recessive

Congrats on the litter! Not finding slugs if she'd already finished giving birth doesn't mean that there weren't any. Female rainbow boas will often eat them and I've even seen them eat them while they are still dropping babies out the back end! As long as your caging is set up for the babies to thrive in, I think you'll see a change in increased feeding within a week or two after their first shed. Good luck and enjoy!

Charlie