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Duxor's 2016 planned pairings

Cool aberrant! Lavender influence for sure.

You know what- I'd be interested in what happens to the kink if you sit on it for a few weeks/months. I have a theory.
 
Out of curiosity, what were your incubation temps and do you know if you had any spikes during the process?
 
I've heard anecdotal reports from numerous people that snakes that hatch with a small "bump" (not even sure you can call it a true kink, but it's what is commonly referred to as a kink) will go on to have that bump be completely undetectable several weeks later (while the snake is still undeveloped enough that the bump couldn't have been covered by fat or muscle development). I wonder if the baby has been positioned such in the egg that it caused a mis-alignment of one vertebrae (or supporting structure like a ligament), which then realigns itself when the hatchling comes out, stretches out, exercises. IF a small bump which we can easily feel was a _true_ spinal deformity, it wouldn't vanish. And I mean, completely gone, undetectable by people who are experienced at feeling such things.

My first experience with this was a plasma stripe, who had what I thought was a kink, I was fairly certain I felt it, but then consequently couldn't find it, and I mean I _obsessively_ felt that snake's spine, hundreds of times. I even brought her to a snake vet, Dr. Orlando, who reported that her spine was kink-free.

I wonder if we shouldn't be so quick to declare these neonates "kinked," (and possibly even feed them off or otherwise euth them!) but note the location, and then observe them for a period of time.

Luckily, I didn't have any kinks this season, but I think for future seasons I'm going to make a standard snake body outline and note the location of any bumps, then document follow ups at each successive feeding.
 
So far everyone is out of the egg except for 3 lavenders, it looks like I got a roughly even ratio of normal to lavender. So far the only visible kink is in the one of the zipper normals, crossing my fingers!

I could never feed off or euthanize a kinked animal if I expected it to survive, so will hold on to this one and see what happens. Because he/she is a pretty zipper, I'm sure I can find a pet home for him/her.
 
My peach-phase boy was returned from his first owner as a fresh hatchling for having several minor spinal kinks which seemed to vanish as he grew. I don't feel anything at his age now, and Don had held him back intending to breed him at some point so I'm guessing they went away pretty fast.
 
This needs to be tracked to get proven out. Making a little picture, noting the "kinks" and tracking them with each feeding seems like a very good idea.
(Does FEEDING OFF mean starving to death?)
 
I think (hope) feeding off is using the hatchlings as feeding for other herps, not starving them to death.
 
Feeding live, I suppose. I am so thankful for FT. Without it, I'd have no squiggles.
 
I got an orchid from Steve for a reduced price that had a minor kink. It seems to be gone now. But I got a group of lava het cinders (from a line of females that display the sex-linked inheritance pattern) one of which had multiple kinks, but months later they show no improvement. So I think it is worth waiting out to see.
 
This was the first lavender to emerge, I think it is a female. A few others emerged after this one, but it looks like the last one will be the most colorful, judging from its head.

 
The tessera has shed and I went ahead and popped it, and it popped as female. Hoping the opal is male!

All the offspring from the ultramel orchid motley project clutch are out of the egg, and there is still only one kinked baby *phew*

I got 9 normals (3 are nice zippers, but one is kinked) and 10 lavenders, a few eggs went bad during incubation.

Pile o' lavenders (there's another pile beneath this one)


I'm going to see how many of the lavenders I can guess the sex of accurately based on their color alone.
 
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Feeding off means feeding the baby to another snake or animal.
I give them a chance, but if they have trouble with normal functions, I feel it is most humane to feed them off.
It's the bad that comes with breeding.
Luckily, this year was the first year I've had to do it.
 
MysticExotics said:
Feeding off means feeding the baby to another snake or animal.
I give them a chance, but if they have trouble with normal functions, I feel it is most humane to feed them off.
It's the bad that comes with breeding.
Luckily, this year was the first year I've had to do it.
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Bummer about having to feed off this year. Fortunately the little kink on mine isn't expected to cause any problems.
 
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