Ok, Dean, Here's the Hatchlings! (D.U. - Beware!)

First up are all of the group shots and a few individual shots while still in the incubator... There's TONS of pictures, so if you are using Dial Up - you'd be safer to leave now so as not to completely kill your computer and connection.







More in the next post...

Jenn

Next set:





Ha! You can't find me!





More to come!

Jenn

The Feisty one:








Yep, more in the next post!

Jenn

Still can't find me!


One last post for now and then Tim wants the computer...

Jenn

Fantastic pictures Jenn, looks like you got some lovely abberant babies!

A tease of aztec-ing (only a partial view the entire pattern):


Feisty boy number 2:


I posted this one another thread, but I know how Dean likes to see belly shots!


Group shot of the ones that came out this morning:


And last one for now:


I have more to post - of individual hatchlings with some full body shots - but I will post them later. Including the short series of the one of the more aggressive hatchlings biting my finger...

Jenn

Thanks Elle! I was quite pleased to see some of them come out! We even had a set of twins come out of one of the eggs, but don't know which two they are.

Jenn

Adorable babes- I love the ventral shot!!

Nanci

That's more like it. Nice bunch o' youngins. There's some cool connection stuff going on in the side portion of the head patterns on some of those guys. I like it. :cheers:

Great group of babies. They are so cute! Also love the pattern on some of them.

nice pics Jenn!
Any more pics of the ziggy zag one?

Any that look like the dad? thats what I want!

TIM

Nanci said:

Adorable babes- I love the ventral shot!!

Nanci

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Thanks Nanci! I actually sat watching those four snakes for 10 minutes from underneath the deli cup they were in - it was neat looking at their bellies. Such a wide variety in pattern and color too.

Roy Munson said:

That's more like it. Nice bunch o' youngins. There's some cool connection stuff going on in the side portion of the head patterns on some of those guys. I like it. :cheers:

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Glad you approve Dean! And I am more then pleased with the patterns that have popped out of this clutch, much more then I ever expected to find considering how flaky the Aztec/zigzag gene is - Although Murphy is still having the last laugh - the clutch seems to be male heavy and I wanted a few females to keep back to pair up with papa in hopes of getting something closer to his pattern.

Beggars can't be choosers though and I'm just happy that the clutch has hatched and is so far healthy. No kinks (knock on wood) and only 3 hatchlings that are undersized. (2 & 3 grams each).

Pasodama said:

Great group of babies. They are so cute! Also love the pattern on some of them.

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Thank you! As I mentioned in my reply to Dean, I got much more pattern variances then I had hoped for - now if only they will all eat when the time comes...

rockmonky said:

nice pics Jenn!
Any more pics of the ziggy zag one?

Any that look like the dad? thats what I want!

TIM

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Unfortunately none of them quite match Granite in appearance, though there is a pair of them that come close. I'll post pics of the first 11 tonight and then I'll post the rest of them tomorrow after I take pictures and move them into deli cups. I was busy working on some coding for Heather's site while taking a few breaks to read my new book. These first 11 don't have the patterning that papa had, but they have some nice aberrant saddles.

I'll post them in the next post!

Jenn

Here's #1:




And #2:



More in the next post...

Jenn

#3:




#4:




7 more to go... (snakes, not pictures)

Jenn

#5:




#6:


#7:


More to come still...

Jenn

#8 (a keeper due to it's lighter coloration and the belly):





#9:



Only 2 more snakes left to post...

Jenn

#10, another feisty one that seemed extra hungry or extra defensive for some reason:



What's that? It doesn't look hungry or angry in those shots? Oh, that's because you have seen these shots that were taken just before those above:




Didn't draw blood, but it did hurt and did leave behind a nice little row of dots on the finger. Thankfully it didn't weigh more then 4-5grams.

Pictures of the last snake will be in the next post.

Jenn

#11:




Now, I thought some of these particular 11 hatchlings were something to fuss over... right up until I saw what hatched out of the egg this morning. I was floored by two in particular, two that just might have been the pair of twins (they are the smallest of the four that emerged today and they have similar patterns. It was teasing pictures of their aztec-ing that I posted earlier... but they aren't quite as nice as Granite (the father) but they are nearly fully aztec'd. I'll post pictures of them tomorrow... err, later today since it's morning technically.


Jenn

Awesome babies! I love seeing hatchling shots - they always seem to have this thing about them its like "Hi. I'm here. I'm kinda small. You are kinda big. What are you?" I know thats silly but... hey! I'm a silly girl!

If I had hatchlings, I'd have at least this quantity of pics!! I love seeing them all in such detail, Jenn!

Nanci