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!