Must be getting close to Easter...

[Kat]

...because I just found a mess of eggs.

My amber, laying her first clutch ever (and my first clutch of the year). Her eggs seem a bit on the small side, but then it's been a year since I last looked at cornsnake eggs. She was still laying when I peeked in on her, so I don't have a count on the clutch size.

-Kat Hall

 

[Kat]

Wow... I must've been good this year.. The easter bunn-er... snake seems to have left me 10 eggs.

Amber X HypoMot dh Butter



-Kat Hall

 

[carol]

Congrats! Glad to hear her first time was problem free.

 

[Simon]

Congrats~~

Hope that they all pop out!!!!

Hoping to see babies soon!!! I just love it this time of year~~

 

[Rich Z]

Kat,

This has got me curious:

Amber X HypoMot dh Butter

What were the parents of that HypoMot dh Butter?

I've been fussing with my new server the last several hours and my brain isn't working too well trying to figure out what combo of genes in the parents would give that kind of offspring.

Thanks.

 

[Kat]

To be honest, Rich, I haven't a clue. I bought him as a proven breeder adult from Mike's Motleys when Mike was getting out of the business.

[Edited because at 4 AM I'm too tired to think right.]

-Kat Hall

 

[CornCrazy]

I'm no genetics expert...

but I think you'd have to start by breeding a butter motley and a hypo motley in order to produce motleys het butter and hypo. Breed a couple of them together and you could get some offspring with those genetics. You'd definitely have to breed them to "prove" their genetics, though.

 

[Kat]

Update on that clutch... the one egg with the bulge on the end has started getting moldy... I doubt it's going to survive...

And my blizzard finally started laying... 11 eggs (1 slug) and what looks like 1 more egg left to lay.

-Kat

 

[Kat]

12 eggs total from my blizzard.

-Kat

 

[Chip]

How do you already have eggs?

Kat,
My corns haven't even successfully bred yet. I can't believe folks are already producing! When do you take yours out of brumation? Do you wait until the second shed? Geez, I'd love to get babies before everybody else does! What's your secret?

 

[Kat]

The secret is to brumate earlier in the year. I put mine down in mid-October and took them out of brumation in early December... I think I might brumate them earlier next year, too.

-Kat

 

[Serpwidgets]

I've been curious about that too...

There are tons of ways to get a Hypo Mot het amel/caramel. If you breed "hypo motley X butter" or "amber X motley amel" the quad het offspring could even produce that. Not too likely, but it will happen here and there. The real difficult part is doing so with that intent, and knowing which ones to keep.

It might not have been an "on purpose" production... I hatched a normal which I thought was het for snow, bred him back to the snow mother and found hypo and motley genes sneaking around in there, too.

Since Kat bought him as an adult, those hets could have been a surprise, as opposed to him hatching with those being known hets.

 

[limey]

THeres no secrect to breeding corns - the damn things wont stop lol, if your pair isnt breeding gets someone who can probe properly to sex them - sop many times i have been round to someones house who has a breeding pair only to discover there both females or males !

 

[Skye]

Congratulations Kat - may they all hatch and feed!

Our first pair bred yesterday, so we're a little way behind, but in the right direction

Skye