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RE: heres a nesting series

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Posted by: FR at Mon Apr 20 20:50:52 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

This method had its beginings with alterna and because of alterna, hahahahahahahaha. I started making large nesting that allowed the snakes to live in the nesting cages, so I could go to texas and hunt more alterna. i wanted the snakes to be able to stay in the nesting boxes for a couple weeks and lay and have the eggs be hatchable when I returned. It worked.

At the time I used 15gallon lard tubs, filled almost to the top. Lite fixture in the lid, etc.

I tested them by putting pre-shed females in them. Thats when we noticed they could lay the day after a shed or within a few days.

Doing this allow our old records of 66 baby alterna(in one season) from three 18 month old females. That is babies, not eggs. I also recieved 99 baby cal kings from 3 18 month old Cal kings(in one season)

The glass layers was added around 1977 taken from Ernie Wagner. He used small boxes(actually metal lunch boxes) with glass layers. He would always wait until 9 days after they shed to put the females in the box. Cheers

   

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