View Full Version : 7th and final clutch.....
Jeff_Favelle
04-17-04, 02:08 PM
Day 29, the longest I've ever had (previous was Day 27), and definitely longest of this year, as all have been 23 days after PLS, except one at 24 days (the last, most important one! ;))
Afternoon laying, which isn't too common around here. But it just goes to show, they will lay when THEY WANT TO, and no amount of artificial manipulation will prove otherwise.
BIG, OLD, nasty female:
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryb/JCF6_eggs_layin1.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryb/snakes_banner_final.jpg (http://www.jefffavelle.com)
Tim_Cranwill
04-17-04, 02:10 PM
Way to go, King of the Jungles! :)
How many jungle eggs total this year?
Optimus Prime
04-17-04, 02:37 PM
Right on Jeff so it seems that you now have enough eggs to give your ol' buddy Darryl one or two ;)
Jeff_Favelle
04-17-04, 02:41 PM
Right on Jeff so it seems that you now have enough eggs to give your ol' buddy Darryl one or two
Heh heh 5 stars for effort there Rodimus.....er....Optimus... LOL!! :D
Tim ol' buddy, this makes 116 Jungle eggs for the year. About 40 more than I wanted, but at least there will be some SELECTION, LOL!
Cheers all.
Only 40 more than you wanted LOL.....Jeff it seems you will be up to your neck in baby snakes quite soon. Congrats on the success and hope they all hatch....cuz then you can send some freebies other peoples way. LOL
Cheers, Ryan
Ryan and Katie
04-17-04, 03:10 PM
116?! Wow, good year... Congrats and good luck!
40 more than you wanted I only have 40 sucks to be you eh!
Congrats again man
Scott
A large congrats Jeff.. Quite the accomplishement!
well 40 eggs than you wanted
then I can have the rest then~
you konw my address so you can send them out to me when they're ready~~~
LOL~~
congrats on the eggs!!
Good luck with them!
Jeff_Favelle
04-17-04, 06:29 PM
Scott, trade ya? Ha ha. Ok, trade you feeding and cleaning schedules? LOL!!
Thanx guys. Too kind of you to say. Hopefully, because of the number of eggs, something weird and new will hatch out. Or maybe because of the combos, I'll get some keepers. Either, as most of you know, its just fun. That's why I work with Jungles. The space that they take up could probably be filled with Ball morphs that would make me $200,000 a year, but how much fun are Ball Pythons? I love them, and I love the Ball "game", but at the end of the day, they are boring to work with. There isn't the dollar value in Jungles, but I'm fine just getting the opportunity to work with them, and making a tidy sum by the end of the year from them is just gravy.
Cheers all. :D
BoidKeeper
04-17-04, 06:46 PM
Sweet Jeff!
116 Jungle eggs! And then all the ball eggs, all the Brazilians and all the rest! Holly smokes Yoda! What's your incubation set up like this year? How many different units do you have etc?
116 on just one species is nutts, even if every thing here takes, which I I'm pretty sure it all won't the most I'd be looking at is 150 in total and that is from 4 different species. You're a breeding machine man!
Cheers,
Chewie
Jeff_Favelle
04-17-04, 08:13 PM
Thanx Trev.
For the pythons, I have two 3x3x3 incubators that can house 6 11.4L Rubbermaids each. That allows me to have around 7 Jungle clutches and 10-15 Ball clutches. Plenty of room still! :D
And then for the colubrids, I have one 2x2x2 incubator which is totally overkill as all I have is Hondos and I'll only have about 5-8 clutches this year and it can house 10 batches at a time.
But when the Womas go next year and about 4x as many Ball Pythons, I'll have to either build something else, or build something else. LOL!
Of course the Rainbows make it easier, but then add the Hogs (4 females), the Dums (2 females), and the het albino boas (5 females), and all of a sudden the live-bearers take over the joint! Next year possibly, and the year after definitely, will be choas. No question. But it will be fun, because it will put me in a position to refine, sell some breeding stock, and upgrade a lot of animals. Its all worth it in the end.
I'd rather do it this way than just get $30,000 in capital and go buy a bunch of expensive morphs. I take pride that anything that comes through my place, produces. I'd much rather build the collection through production and re-investment than by just forking over a bunch of cash from another aspect of life. I think it adds a little credibility as any joe-blow can buy anything if they have the dough. But to only buy stuff with "snake money" entails that you have to actually produce, or you'll never get anything new. Its the same approach you have Trev., and you are definitely being successful with it. I don't think we'd do it any other way, and I don't think we'd want to.
Cheers,
Jeff F.
Clownfishie
04-17-04, 08:17 PM
116, just from the jungles? Holy crap man! You're insane... lol... and if you're not already, you certainly will be soon :p Ah well... who needs to sleep and eat when you can be looking after a shitload of babies? ;) LOL...
Congrats on the latest batch man... and I hope you're catching up on your sleep while you can.... *grin*.
Jen
Optimus Prime
04-17-04, 10:18 PM
I had to try man! Can't blame a guy with jungles that sweet.
Jeff_Favelle
04-18-04, 03:42 AM
Sleep? What's that? Its 2:20am and I'm just getting started!! Where is everyone?
LOL.
Jeff,
LOL
I am here with you~
it's 5:30am right now....and I am still up and running....lol~
got to get some sleep though...it's very tiring doing this all the time...
Jeff_Favelle
04-18-04, 05:08 AM
Ha ha 5:30Am??? You ARE crazy. Now I KNOW you're a corn breeder!!! Foooor suuurrre! LOL!
Go to bed bro.
BoidKeeper
04-18-04, 05:16 AM
Jeff I couldn't agree more with everything you said in that last paragraph.
Cheers,
Trevor
Jeff_Favelle
04-18-04, 11:38 AM
Thax Chewie! :D
How many clutches are you having this year in total with all of your species?...I may have to go ahead and purchase my first Jeff Favelle snake...
Jeff_Favelle
04-18-04, 01:17 PM
Should be around 30 clutches/litters. Between 300 and 400 snakes. Too much for my taste, but at this point, I'm trying to build something and get the wheels in motion so I kind of went all-out this year. Next year, when I add the Womas, Hogs, Dums, and Boa Constrictors to the mix, 2004 will seem like a vacation!!
Yikes.
But after next year, I'll radically reduce what I have, refining every breeding stock species here. I look forward to it!
Cheers guys! :D
Kyle Walkinshaw
04-18-04, 11:40 PM
WOW CONGRATS!!!!...but damn you Jeff !:jawdrop: :D
I'd rather do it this way than just get $30,000 in capital and go buy a bunch of expensive morphs. I take pride that anything that comes through my place, produces. I'd much rather build the collection through production and re-investment than by just forking over a bunch of cash from another aspect of life. I think it adds a little credibility as any joe-blow can buy anything if they have the dough. But to only buy stuff with "snake money" entails that you have to actually produce, or you'll never get anything new. Its the same approach you have Trev., and you are definitely being successful with it. I don't think we'd do it any other way, and I don't think we'd want to.
Snake breeder's Philo 101;) Let me add... a 10$ snake is the same thing as a 1000$ snake & there's a difference between keeping a snake and breeding breeding it;)
All the best with all your projects and keep up your nice work!
( I need help for an interesting rainbow subspecies i just got. Maybe you can help me? I had the # for scalecount but i can't find it anymore. I tried to call you a cpl of times last week but i hit the answering machine what time can i call you? )
Stav
Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Ha ha 5:30Am??? You ARE crazy. Now I KNOW you're a corn breeder!!! Foooor suuurrre! LOL!
Go to bed bro.
LOL...
yeah but I am so used to this..I don't konw why..once it hits night I get all these energy for running around. I just like working in the dark so much. (Plus without the heat and all....)
I mean it's 5:00am right now....
I slept early yesterday night cause there was a show day..(slept at 3:30am and woke up at 5:00am...and I was suppose to be super tired tonight...but i don't know..I am still up and running..so I have been awake for a good 24 hours and I am stilll running...hahahahah
geeze~
I need to get my boilogical clock working...I am not a normal human being....hahah
but heck Jeff,
I bet that you do the same thing all the time!!
Jeff_Favelle
04-19-04, 07:00 AM
Ha ha 5:30am right now hear, so I'm with ya man! But I gotta ship out today (in one hour) so I have an excuse! Perfect weather for shipping today! Ahhhhh .. I love spring!
Anytime before 10pm Pacific is good man. I'm going to re-activate the cell # so I'll give you that number when I get it. Then you can get me at any time of the day.
Here's a good place though:
http://www.corallus.com/cenchria/
Ok Thanks Jeff I'll call you tomorrow and i'll send you some pics;) Thanks for the link to. Its a great site but it dosent say anything about ventral scalation , anal plate etc... for this subspecies.
Talk to you soon,
Stav
Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Ha ha 5:30am right now hear, so I'm with ya man! But I gotta ship out today (in one hour) so I have an excuse! Perfect weather for shipping today! Ahhhhh .. I love spring!
Ha~
still point proven!
You're awake at 5:30am~
No excuse~
Cause I have been working on the corns only~
You're with me...
CRAZY!
muhahahahhah
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