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Rainbowsrus
09-18-13, 12:06 PM
I checked on my females this morning at 9:45 and noticed Abby had two babies already born and working on the rest. I pulled out her hide and she did not seem to mind so I watched the whole process and had several interesting events/observations.
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At one point Abby actually latched onto a live baby. The first one born was out cruising and she opened her mouth and closed it on that baby about an inch or so down it's neck. I did not wait to see what would happen, I applied light pressure on the sides of her jaw, she opened her mouth and the live baby was free. Immediately pulled it and put it in a separate tub.

4th out was a slug and she had to work extra long/hard to get it out. Something I have seen and noted before.

Most babies were born by "blow a bubble with sack/fluid and baby flows into it", something I documented earlier this year but I also noticed today that often the head is in the first body parts to pass through the vent into the bubble.

One baby (pic shown) was born with the sack burst, head and one body loop outside the vent. I reached in and gently pulled the baby out, it was fine.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b237/rainbows-r-us/BRB/2013%20babies/Abby%20x%20Wacko/AB_WA_20130918f.jpg


One more baby was born with sack burst but was breach. Most was outside mom but the head was still inside. Again I assisted by gently pulling the baby the rest of the way out. Again, this baby was fine. For both of the burst sack births Abby was having a harder time passing the baby out and without intervention I think could have resulted in a still birth. As I think back I cannot remember one single still birth baby being in it's egg sack, all were separated.

sweatshirt
09-18-13, 12:24 PM
More stunners!

Must have been scary when she latched on one though haha. Glad everything was ok :D

Rainbowsrus
09-18-13, 12:53 PM
Yeah, caught me by surprise as I've seen them nudge babies many times. I thought that was all she was doing.

thinkbig317
09-18-13, 01:10 PM
Awesome pics!!!!

revent
09-18-13, 01:15 PM
Wow that's really amazing.

MONIKAZEMA
09-18-13, 09:29 PM
It's wonderful that you could be there and assist with the process.

Necrias
09-21-13, 03:30 PM
This is awesome Dave! BTW I'm incredibly happy with all 5 of the snakes I have bought from you and you will always be my go-to guy for BRBs :) will you be at Tinley in a few weeks?

Rainbowsrus
09-21-13, 11:11 PM
Necrias, Hmmmm, not connecting the dots between this userid and a name? Still, am always happy to hear my babies are doing well. Tinley is way beyond my show range.

Rainbowsrus
09-21-13, 11:17 PM
Ahhhh, Kyle, figured it out!!! Was drawing a blank.

Necrias
09-22-13, 07:46 AM
Ahhhh, Kyle, figured it out!!! Was drawing a blank.

Good detective work Dave :) Too bad you won't be at Tinley, I really need to stop being lazy and make it to a show outside the midwest!

Teal
09-22-13, 11:12 PM
How awesome to witness! Congrats on your new wee ones :)

Sublimeballs
09-30-13, 07:06 PM
So how many babies did you end up with? How big is the mother? I've always liked BRBs but never got one(for some reason). Now I'm thinking about getting a little female.

Rainbowsrus
09-30-13, 11:28 PM
So how many babies did you end up with? How big is the mother? I've always liked BRBs but never got one(for some reason). Now I'm thinking about getting a little female.

That litter was 11 babies, several more litters since then and am at 190 babies for the year so far. one more mo still to go.

They get to be around 6 feet long and 5ish lbs.

Snakesitter
10-03-13, 01:41 PM
190? Wow! How many litters does that represent?

Rainbowsrus
10-04-13, 09:48 AM
That's 190 babies from 14 litters. A little below my all time average babies / litter but I'm not complaining one bit. A huge variety of babies...
Two litters of Hypos and hets.
One of Anerys and Hets.
Two with visual aberrant babies from my Picasso line with a third frmo the line with no aberrant babies (I already suspected mom does not carry the genetics, now proven)
One litter of Pearls with one more still due.
Seven litters of high color including Savannah offspring.

Phew, been a really good year!!

Snakesitter
10-04-13, 02:01 PM
Nicely done!

hwilson
11-16-13, 11:55 AM
I think this is amazing!! I have never seen live baby snakes being born and I am thrilled! I really want to breed Rosy when she is older now!! I will most likely use a breeder and definitely not keep the babies myself. That would be so much work and I am a college student still.... Kind of like a female 'stud'.
What age do they mature at?