Markus Jayne
12-26-03, 02:45 PM
This year we had our first pairing of Pastel Jungles. I t was a very exciting time waiting for our female to lay eggs and once they arrived the waiting game had begun.
54 days later the first to pip was a Super Pastel that literally blew my mind. She was very clean and I nicknamed her the Super Duper. What most people don’t know is that there was a second Super as well. A day later all the hatchlings had come out of their shells with one exception…the second super.
The day after that it still had not emerged. Something was wrong. I could still see the yolk and it wasn’t being absorbed. I suspected a twisted umbilical cord. I slowly lifted her from the egg and discovered that she had a major deformity. As you can see by the pics her belly was sewn together leaving an opening around one inch long. I could see her tiny heart beating through the opening and she weighed only 42 grams.
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%203.jpg
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%202.jpg
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%201.jpg
She also had her yolk sack still attached and not an ounce of it was absorbed. It was beginning to rot and harden so I made some calls to get some advice. I decided to cut her cord after tying a thread around it just below the opening. She was very weak and I knew she needed some protein quickly. I went to the kitchen and put some chicken yolk in a syringe, put a tube down her throat and filled her belly. The next day I half expected to find her dead but to my surprise she was not.
To make a long story short, Genie, the second Super Duper, now 246 grams, is thriving along with her great personality. She is a fighter.
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%204.jpg
So when some told me to just throw her in the freezer and others told me she would never survive, I couldn’t loose faith in the greatest thing of all…nature. Sometimes if we just let it do its thing, it has a way of making things work out.
Merry Christmas to all. Keep the faith.
MJ
54 days later the first to pip was a Super Pastel that literally blew my mind. She was very clean and I nicknamed her the Super Duper. What most people don’t know is that there was a second Super as well. A day later all the hatchlings had come out of their shells with one exception…the second super.
The day after that it still had not emerged. Something was wrong. I could still see the yolk and it wasn’t being absorbed. I suspected a twisted umbilical cord. I slowly lifted her from the egg and discovered that she had a major deformity. As you can see by the pics her belly was sewn together leaving an opening around one inch long. I could see her tiny heart beating through the opening and she weighed only 42 grams.
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%203.jpg
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%202.jpg
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%201.jpg
She also had her yolk sack still attached and not an ounce of it was absorbed. It was beginning to rot and harden so I made some calls to get some advice. I decided to cut her cord after tying a thread around it just below the opening. She was very weak and I knew she needed some protein quickly. I went to the kitchen and put some chicken yolk in a syringe, put a tube down her throat and filled her belly. The next day I half expected to find her dead but to my surprise she was not.
To make a long story short, Genie, the second Super Duper, now 246 grams, is thriving along with her great personality. She is a fighter.
http://ballpython.ca/A%20New%20Web/A%20Web%20Shots/Genie/Genie%204.jpg
So when some told me to just throw her in the freezer and others told me she would never survive, I couldn’t loose faith in the greatest thing of all…nature. Sometimes if we just let it do its thing, it has a way of making things work out.
Merry Christmas to all. Keep the faith.
MJ