Took some quick pics of the 2010 Babies from a Pastel x Cinnamon breeding. 1 Normal 1 Pastel 1 Cinnamon 1 Cinnamon Ringer. Unfortunately, I did produce a Pewter but it had to many kinks to keep. Definitly a downer but i will try again for next year. Sold the Pastel and the Normal and just got the Cinny Brothers left... Enjoy the pictures...

Day 17 Candling the Eggs...

I decided to Candle the eggs and see if i would be able to see some movements... 5 out of 6 eggs look fertile while 1 is lighting up like a lamp with no signs of veins. I cant make out the red shadow in the egg. I'm trying to be hopefully but i have already been told that it maybe nothing at all. So until the egg rots and smells, i will throw it out... Got to have HOPE, and you got to have FAITH. So i made alil video to get an idea of what I see every morning...Enjoy.

2010 Eggs !

I have been so busy lately that sometimes it feel impossible to keep up with everything... but i try. Since January this year i have been pairing my Pastel female with only my Cinnamon male...Yes, i have been daydreaming about Pewters is the reason i didn't want to introduce another male with her... At 1st i read all her signs wrong, according to date wise... Went on vacation in May and was expecting eggs for when i came back but all i got from her was a freshly shed-ed scales which put a Grey cloud over my breeding season this year, epically them being the only pairing for me. something told me that she had to be gravid. 1 she wasn't eating, 2 she wasn't losing any weight and 3 she started to reject the male so i had some thought that it maybe possible ! within a few weeks i seen the spine sign which let me know that she is gravid and just counting down the days...

Just like last year, as soon as i woke up i check on her and to see her coiled is ALWAYS the best thing to see 1st thing in the morning... After i got her coil off the eggs, there they lay 6 fertile eggs waiting to be put into the incubator... All 6 weighting at 612g, 1 smaller than the rest and 1 bigger than the rest... so 60day count down has started and i am extremely excited to see what will pip out in 50-60days...

09 HoldBack Update...

My 09 Holdbacks Females are doing great. They both have a little attitude but nothing that any newborn doesn't have... They are eating real well also, swallowing small rats with no problem... Can't wait to see these girls at breed able weight so i can prove out their clown gene. Their Father being 100% Het Clown and making these beauties 50% Het Clown... so just keeping my fingers crossed in what the outcome could be in 2yrs... (Day Dreaming) The Pastel is bright and has a glow about her, as well as the possible Het female... so excited ! Enjoy !

2010 Breeding Pair....

I have been MIA for a lil while now, been so busy with work with my crazy time schedules and I have also been Lazy... Last year has been extremely good to me in breeding, I came out with 2 clutches of a total of 12 eggs that successfully hatched out and was able to get 10 of them to great new homes... so that mean its that time this year to do it all again...! I can only do one pair due to space right now, the two I have chosen is my Female Pastel SunShyne x Male Cinnamon Brownie. So far so good, for a month now they have been locking for a whole day or two so I'm looking forward in seeing some fertile eggs in the near future...

Day 50 ! {7.25.2009}

Well i guess not everything happens in the morning for me... When I got home from work, I usally check on the snakes & incubator right away but yesterday i ate, watched alittle t.v. then i realized that i gotta check in the incubation. It really wasnt a rush for to do so because it was Day 50 and didnt think i was going to see a head sticking out its egg ! But I DID ! When i open the container 1 snake had its head out and 2nd egg had slices on it. so i decided to get my cameras, scissors and start cuting.

With this being my 2nd clutch for the year. i was alittle for ready to cut and excited to see what would be inside these eggs. i really didnt keep a close eye on SunShyne (pastel f.) this year, so im not 100% sure who the father was for this clutch. (not even Maury Povich could figure it out). i do remember puting Brownie(cinny) & Spot(het clown) in with her and seen locks from both but didnt keep them together long. guess Quickies do work...

As i was cuting, i just kept getting more & more excited from what i was seeing inside these eggs... the one with its head out already was a nice looking normal and the other egg with the slices was a really bright and nice pastel... the 3rd egg i cut, another nice pastel ! the 4th egg another beautiful pastel and the 5th egg was a shy normal that kept trying to dig back into its egg.

Eggs Again !

Woke up this morning like any other morning... grab my flashlight to check on all the snakes as well as the eggs in the incubator... What do i find to my suprise, no pips...but SunShyne perfectly coiled around 5 healthy eggs ! What better way to wake up ! So, i was right on her having eggs inside just was lost on the days as far as pre-lay shed or lay date... I seen a couple of videos on youtube.com and seen a couple of breeders that just go right in and take the eggs without a problem. so i decided to do the same. unlike Ginger, she was waiting to bite ! SunShyne is one of my really sweet BPs and she let me pick her up and take the eggs right from under her.

Expecting #2 ?!

I have been so busy these past couple of months with work & taking care of the snakes... My mind & attention was all on Ginger in figuring out if she was going to lay eggs or not, and she has. Now, that im back to my regular routine...SunShyne is looking alil different then regular. SunShyne has been off feeding for 2 months and her mid-section is firm and doesn't sink in like it usually does when i hold her. I would like to know when she is going to lay but i can't remember if she had her pre-lay shed or if its coming... i really hope its coming because i'm going on vacation for a week in June and really don't want her laying then... oh boy... Took a couple pics of the beautiful SunShyne...

Candling ...

Well, its been a week since Ginger had laid her eggs and they have been in the incubator. So far so good... Every night and everyday i check on the temps and on the condensation in the container. Temperature is at a stable 88F and humidity is 99% (substrate-less). I candled the eggs today and still healthy and still seeing their red veins... 1 week down and approximately 7 more to go... I will keep candling and posting updates on the little eggs...

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Eggs !!!

20May09 - What a day ! The day started not so good. i wasnt feeling the best and had to call out of work... Needed alot of rest, which i was able to get. When i woke up later that afternoon, my Big Girl Ginger(Normal) was doing fine, nothing abnormal. About a hour later, i decided to place some cypress mulch in her container. Sprayed alil water on it to get nice and humid for her. I started to clean some of the other snakes, pick up some poop & refill their water bowls...Another hour goes by and i started to hear one of the snakes hissing or blowing really strong... When i checked on Ginger, she was coiled up and bowling air, definitely not normal. Come to find out, she was going into labor. Went to get my brother to come and check this out, open her container and Half of an egg was coming out already...MIND BLOWING !!!!

Took a couple of pictures and closed the container back, i really didnt want to stress her out. Alil after 8pm i decided to check on her and come to find her covering 7 white as can be eggs. My 1st clutch and her 1st clutch, 7 EGGS !!! With the help of my brother we went to get the eggs from her. I covered her with a cloth and moved her away from the eggs while my brother softly but quickly picked up the eggs... I thought the eggs were going to be hard after the air touches them but they stay soft ! To me they feel like a water ballon without the plastic covering, more like a paper towel.

My Brother and I slowly with alil pressure was able to seperate 3 of the eggs and left 2 pairs together. With a clutch of 7 eggs, all together they weighted 791g. Placed them into the container and then into the incubator (http://www.jwexotics.com/incs.html). I candled each eggs and each one is fertile as can be. The incubator is set to 88.5 degrees and in 2 months (21Jul09) God willing, 7 little heads will be pipping out of their eggs. I will post updates every week so keep popping in & out to check on their progress.

A couple days after, i cleaned Ginger's container out. Refilled her water bowl and tried offering her a frozen thawed rat. no response. alil worried, dont want her going off feeding since she has been for a couple of months now. Tried to offer her a smaller meal, threw in a live mouse and she didnt waste anytime. Gave her a 2nd mouse right after and within seconds she is back to normal. So with a couple more small meals, ill get her back to eating medium rats. Stay tune...