13 Fertile Eggs!

[Taceas]

Sorry I hadn't posted sooner, been buried in wedding business. We're to get married in less than a month, and everything is piling on at the last moment, figures I suppose.

I just thought I'd share that Hecate laid 13 beautiful and fertile eggs on Friday (June 6th). I candled them this morning, and they already have little veins and a heartbeat. Not bad for both parents being first time breeders.

Hecate is doing great. She didn't lose much weight and is eating like a pig. She might potentially double-clutch if I can get her beefed back up before she ovulates again.

If she does ovulate again, I intend to breed her to my new male snow corn to test her for amel + anery A.

*crosses fingers* I hope that all the eggs make it to hatching, sometime around August 6th. =)

 

[sboyes]

Congrats on the eggs!! what morphs are their parents?! Good luck with them!

 

[Taceas]

The parents are..

The female is a Normal Motley (het for ?)

The male is a Normal Strip (supposedly het for amel)

Now starts the struggle to not check on the eggs everyday. =P

 

[carol]

Congrats! Those two should make some very nice babies! They both have great color. BTW, I love the mouse trap next to the snake cage, how ironic.

 

[Taceas]

Heh..

Funny you should notice the mousetrap. It is actually functional and gets a bit of use during the winter months. In it's offtime, it's a decorative item and a warning to the other mice. =P

Every year I have mice that make their way across the table with the female corn snake's cage. I never see them do this of course, but they leave "bits" of evidence of their activity after each night.

I have 4 cats in the house, and they can never manage to catch a mouse. Bugs yes, mice no. So after a week of getting sick of seeing droppings on the table, I set a trap. Within an hour, caught the bugger responsible, a nice pregnant mouse. ~ 12 mice in one smack. =P

I don't know whats so good about that particular table. I'll kill around 5-7 mice per year on it, and yet they still insist on crawling across it. I wish they'd find their way into her cage, she'd dispatch them rather quickly.

So I'm reduced to bagging the catches up and putting them in the freezer for a few weeks till all of the parasites are dead, and then they become food items. The adult snakes go wild over the "wild scent" of mice, so I use it as a treat or change of pace every now and then.

So that's the story of the mousetrap.

 

[pipatic]

excellent pic, but where the snow corn ,

 

[Taceas]

You referring to the snow in the background?

The picture of my male stripe was taken in March, and yes there was snow on the ground at that time. But the air tempreture was a mild 68 F, and warm enough for shorts for me.

After his photo shoot, he was taken back inside. I just wanted to get a picture of him using sunlight, which was abundant that day.

=B

 

[Darin Chappell]

Not certain, but I believe Pipatic was referring to this statement in your original post:

"If she does ovulate again, I intend to breed her to my new male snow corn to test her for amel + anery A."

He wants to see a pic of that male to which you referred . . .

Nice pics, Taceas!

 

[pipatic]

cheer darin , yup thats what i meant

 

[Taceas]

Blonde Attack Again..

Today has been one of those "brainless" days, sorry for the misunderstanding. Didn't have my "British" dictionary out. =P

Here's the picture of the snow I intend to breed her with (either this year or next year):

He has a very orange head and his dorsal saddles are more of a salmon colour with pink and orange together in them. He's also starting to develop random red dots/splotches on his body. So maybe something interesting will come of him with each shed.

=)

 

[pipatic]

again excellent photo,and a very nice snow corn.thank you