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My First Hatchlings!

Oh my goodness!!! I'm so late to this thread (sort of been hopping from country to country), but congratulations!!!!!! You have an absolutely stunning clutch there.

Also, despite not entirely having the patience to read all of the posts, I figured I would comment on your 'kinked' baby (I believe you had named it Zucchini). Kinks (provided they're not the kind that completely curl the body up) can sometimes sort of grow out and fix themselves. With any luck at all, that's what will happen to your pretty little baby.

At any rate, congratulations again on a beautiful and healthy first clutch! :)
 
Yea, I'm hoping that Zucchini will be fine and able to "grow into" the kink. It definitely isn't a major one. I have a feeling s/he will be okay!

Also, good news! Baby 15 has finally come out of the egg!
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Another great Pin Striped Butter Spotley (MY version of thundlefart!)!
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just kidding.. about the Spotley thing at least. :rolleyes:
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Apricot (yea, I decided to use it after all), 6g
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Other good news, looks like some of the babies are getting very close to shedding!
 
Awesome! I am so in love with the butter mots, but then again I don't have any stripes... (I live closest neener neener neener :nyah: ) lol okay that was really immature, but seriousness I can drive down there and snag one! Tempting... very tempting....

P.S is this your only clutch this year? or do you have others that might produce more babies for us to drool over?
 
Susan said:
Why would you find it difficult to believe that the prior breeding of a butter motley would produce an amel motley het butter and that the next pairing of that female be to another butter motley? It actually seems quite logical to me. And only having one egg fertilized by the retained sperm from the prior years breeding sounds about right to me. I would be very surprised to find much more than that, especially when the female was bred to another male that year.
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That means the female would have used retained sperm from the 2004 season. I got her in 2005 & I'm not aware of what male she may have been bred to by the previous owner in the previous season.

Now here is the part that has me perplexed:
She wasn't bred in 2005, but was bred in 2006 to copperhead's father. I think that if she had retained sperm from 2004, she would've laid a clutch in 2005 without a male being introduced.:shrugs:

Jessica congrats on your first clutch, it appears that there is alot of interest
in the hatchlings & you still have another clutch to hatch.You have produced sme beautiful hatchlings from this pairing.
 
Fantastic! I wish you were closer! I would love one Copperheads and butter pinstripes!! Great clutch!! I'd want to keep all of them haha :)
 
I agree. I particularly love mots and stripes, so I'd be hard pressed to give any away. Of course, my husband might divorce me if I did that.... :D
 
tsthompson said:
That means the female would have used retained sperm from the 2004 season. I got her in 2005 & I'm not aware of what male she may have been bred to by the previous owner in the previous season.

Now here is the part that has me perplexed:
She wasn't bred in 2005, but was bred in 2006 to copperhead's father. I think that if she had retained sperm from 2004, she would've laid a clutch in 2005 without a male being introduced.:shrugs:

Jessica congrats on your first clutch, it appears that there is alot of interest
in the hatchlings & you still have another clutch to hatch.You have produced sme beautiful hatchlings from this pairing.
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Im even more confident in my anomaly idea now, Tom.

But to play your side as well, Susan, the longest successful sperm retention ive ever heard of was a viper of some kind producing live babies after 3 years without a mate.
 
tsthompson said:
That means the female would have used retained sperm from the 2004 season. I got her in 2005 & I'm not aware of what male she may have been bred to by the previous owner in the previous season.

Now here is the part that has me perplexed:
She wasn't bred in 2005, but was bred in 2006 to copperhead's father. I think that if she had retained sperm from 2004, she would've laid a clutch in 2005 without a male being introduced.:shrugs:

Jessica congrats on your first clutch, it appears that there is alot of interest
in the hatchlings & you still have another clutch to hatch.You have produced sme beautiful hatchlings from this pairing.
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OK, I did not know there was a year in between when the female had Copperhead's clutch and the previous one.
 
K. Rene said:
P.S is this your only clutch this year? or do you have others that might produce more babies for us to drool over?
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This was my only pairing, but the female double clutched with what look like 7 good eggs. I'm a little iffy on them, but if they end up good looks like we will have some more hatchlings to drool over!

I really need to get these guys sexed so we can figure out who wants what!

Let's see, I think the order so far is..

Tom
John
(clutch wouldn't be possible without them!)
Nate
Kelsie (K.Rene)
Solana (solo)
Irish?! yes, no, maybe..

I'll have to go back through the thread and see if anyone else wanted to be on the list.. I think we had a few people who posted but didn't PM.

As far as keepers go, I'll probably keep one of the Amel wierdo Stripes and maybe one of the Pin Striped Butter Mots.

I'm also waiting for everybody to shed so I can offer a pink and see if there are any problem feeders.

fyrefocks said:
Im even more confident in my anomaly idea now, Tom.
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Dang, I wish Lazar Beam was a female so that Copperhead could have a go with him! I need a Caramel Mot!!
 
Jessicat said:
Dang, I wish Lazar Beam was a female so that Copperhead could have a go with him! I need a Caramel Mot!!
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Laser Beam is a stripe! :smash:

However his mate, Cupcake, is an amel stripe. Since it seems that Copperhead is amel TRUNDLEFART, breeding those 2 would give you a definitive answer, if this awesome pairing of yours didnt already confirm for you that he is def. an amel. And it would keep you from producing 'normal' trundlefarts. Not that there is anything wrong with normals, but you know, market flooding and all.
 
Damn those are cute Jessica. I may just have to make a trip to the US again and take whatever is left.... In all seriousness if I do make another trip I'll make the call and get at least one of those lovelies. And if Kjun comes through I'll definitely be making a trip.
 
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