I was out of town with my Mom, who is recovering from a wonderfully successful kidney transplant, and had lots of activity since last I posted. Our Cinamon girl decided to lay early before my return and gave us 8 gorgeous pearlie whites(Thanks Wes for the house call). One egg is real big and my daughter is calling twins.

She was bred originally by our Black Pastel but spent most of her breeding cycle with our Butter male so this should have some great results.

Next we had a clutch from our Orange Ghost female hatch

We were hoping for some Pinstripe Ghosts but instead saw Pinstripes het Ghost and Orange Ghosts but not the combination. This pairing was from a male Pinstripe het Ghost to the Orange Ghost girl.

     On the same day LeBron made his decision we had our own King join us here on the West Coast.

As a matter of fact this clutch produced not only 1 King Pin

But a total of 3 King Pins(all females) and 4 Butters. I couldn’t be more pleased with the gorgeous reduced patterns on these sweet lil babies! This clutch was a Royal Flush as it was all KingPins and Butters!

We still have alot of great clutches due to hatch in the near future and others that haven’t even laid yet. Thanks for stopping by!

6/22/10

I thought this girl had finished laying at first when I took her out of the rack. In this shot you can see her tail pointing straight out as she is still laying the last eggs(I hadn’t realized yet when I took the photo).

I noticed she seemed abnormally aggitated for a snake that had just laid, then when I peeked around I saw she was passing another egg and gently put her back. She had laid two in the morning, which you see next to her, and then another 4 in the later afternoon/evening. In the afternoon when I opened her tub and saw her coiled on a group of eggs with the two next to her, I assumed she was done as lots of time had gone by since the morning eggs. This was her first rodeo and I guess she just needed a little time to finish a job well done. All 6 eggs candled fine with nice healthy veins, we are excited about this clutch as she is an Enchi and has been bred primarily our Butter. Enchi Butters are quite pretty and I cant wait to see how the odds pan out.

Here she is finally done.

          Earlier in the month on 6/4 we had a Pastel female we produced a few years back, lay 6 eggs. She was bred exclusively to our Pastel Orange Ghost male. This clutch should produce some Super Pastels het for  Orange Ghost.

              On 6/8/10 the mother of the Pastel, ”Raquel”(our Reduced Pattern girl), laid one egg in the morning. I checked on her throughout the day and waited for the rest but they looked like they were still not low enough to come out. By the evening I took the one egg out, which looked fine, and put it in an egg box in the incubator. I waited 1 day, then 2 days and finally on 6/11 she dropped the other 6 eggs. All  7 of them look good. She is a captive hatched animal that has a gorgeous reduced woma like pattern. I would like to hold back a male butter from this clutch and finally prove out this trait as simple recessive as she shows all the classics markers. I have held back a female pastel and a spider she has produced (both show some reduction) but have not gotten the male morph I wanted to prove her out. I am hoping to see a nice reduced looking male butter from this one to hold back and breed to all 3 females and finally prove this out as genetic.

Here is a picture of ”Raquel” and her Butter boyfriend in action.

This is shot of her daughter the Pastel soaking prior to her ovulation.

We are about two weeks out from  hatching our next clutch which should yeild some Ghost Pinstripes and a few days later a KingPin clutch. We should have some updates and pictures as they hatch. Thanks for stopping by!