Nest box fun! Only 2 more to go....

[Jeff_Favelle]

Only two more clutches left for the year! Woo-hoo, the end is in sight!

Hondos rule! pass it on...

http://members.shaw.ca/internet_pics/TaF3_lay_box.jpg

[Clownfishie]

LOL -- you're just a total nestbox convert now, eh Jeff? ;) Seems to be working well for ya though... congrats on another clutch! :) These will be some more het albinos I assume?


Jen

[vanderkm]

Nice clutch - I must be the only one who doesn't see my females laying - they always do it overnight.

Congrats on the new clutch - very nice big female!

mary v.

[MarcB]

Only two more hondo clutches, doubt that from you Mr. Favelle, the way you fed those girls the past year, I am ready to bet they will drop a second clutch without you re-introducing their respective boyfriends and you know what...

You will still have 100% hatch rate from those second clutches...lol

By the way, that female looks very familiar...

Congrats buddy

[TheRedDragon]

Congratulations Jeff! Good luck with all those eggs. :)

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha Marc, this female should be VERY familair!! LOL! She's that beauty het spotted! I was gonna breed her with the albino, but I decided to make more spotteds/reduced patterns and then I'll just hold a pair of them back. Looks like 10 eggs, which was the same as last year, but this year I think she'll double clutch! Should be awesome!

Thanks bro. You ARE the Hondo KING! :D

From last year from a pair of Hondos bought from Marc Bouchard:

http://members.shaw.ca/internet_pics/TaF3_babies_spot4.jpg

[Jeff_Favelle]

Taking her sweet-a$$ time. Still one egg to go, so I'll stop bothering her until morning. 10 eggs is the count. Hopefully she'll eat tomorrow and be on the road to another clutch! heh heh...

http://members.shaw.ca/internet_pics/TaF3_lay_box2.jpg

[MarcB]

Jeff, the 2003 hatchling is unreal, did you end up holding this one back, those go for crazy coin down south...

Can you imagine F2's from this spotted line or better yet, getting the albino mutation in there,, ya baby...

I should of kept them eh!

[Classic]

Congrats Jeff, They look great. Do you have alot of hondos cooking? That spotted is very pretty. Nice colors. Would be very interesting mixed into albino.

Brian

[Jeff_Favelle]

106 eggs cooking for the Hondos now Brian. I got one more clutch that's guaranteed, with another possible one after that. Then, any of the ones that decide to double clutch.

Thanks!! :D

Marc, the only thing sillier than you selling me the pair, was me selling that baby pictured above! LOL!! I WON'T make the same mistake this year! :D

[Simon]

Wow........
haven't you had enough eggs yet?

Stop that....I am still waiting for my females to lay.......

hate you~~

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL! ;)

[Joe]

Congrats Jeff, best of luck with your pairings this year...

[Canada_Club]

Outstanding Hondo year from what I can tell Jeff!! I think I may have to start my Hondo collecting with a pair of hets, wink wink!! ;)

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thaks guys! The Hondos this year simply blew me away! Now I know why people like colubrids! They breed like flies!!! Holy moly!

Cheers Joe and CC! :D

[Clownfishie]

That spotted baby ROCKS Jeff! If you have some more like that this year, I'm going to have a damn hard time restraining myself from getting one... damn you :p


Jen

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thanx Jen!! And as for being a nest-box convert, I am SOLD! Ha ha ha! When Roy and Simon speak or say something about colubrids, it makes sense to listen, LOL!! I've always done it without, but they are more colubrid guys than I am, so when they said it was easier, I totally believed them! I'm getting the same success rate, but its much easier and much less maintenance/worry. They were right, so I made the switch as soon as I had that first clutch!!

Albinos in 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Simon]

Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Thanx Jen!! And as for being a nest-box convert, I am SOLD! Ha ha ha! When Roy and Simon speak or say something about colubrids, it makes sense to listen, LOL!! I've always done it without, but they are more colubrid guys than I am, so when they said it was easier, I totally believed them! I'm getting the same success rate, but its much easier and much less maintenance/worry. They were right, so I made the switch as soon as I had that first clutch!!

Albinos in 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

good job~!!!

I tell you, a lot of people just like sticking with what words for them.....and you took our advice and changed your set up and found that you like it better.

I am definitely proud of you!!!

Really a lot of people don't listen to other's advice AT ALL!! LOL!!

[Jeff_Favelle]

Hey man, if guys who have been keeping colubrids for 60 years (ha ha sorry Royster!!) and keep 800+ corns say that nest boxes are better, I ain't about to argue. I had killer success my old way, but I definitely saw the light at the end of the ......nest box. LOL!!

I just thank you guys for the advice! You ROCK! :D

[Oliverian]

Jeff, thats awesome. :D I really need to get into milks one of these days, they're absolutely amazing. Especially yours, darn you! :)

-TammyR

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thanks Tammy! How's the baby Ribbons doing? Pics girl, PICS! :D

[jay76]

Good luck with those eggs, Jeff! Hope they all turn out as nice as that female!

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thanx Jay!! I'm part colubrid-guy, part boid-guy now, LOL!! :D

[Simon]

Originally posted by Jeff_Favelle
Hey man, if guys who have been keeping colubrids for 60 years (ha ha sorry Royster!!) and keep 800+ corns say that nest boxes are better, I ain't about to argue. I had killer success my old way, but I definitely saw the light at the end of the ......nest box. LOL!!

I just thank you guys for the advice! You ROCK! :D

LOL...true. But as you know (and you have properly ran into these people too) that no matter how many times and how much you tell them, they just never listen....LOL....

That is why I am real proud of a person that would accept new changes and new methods. Heck I too am looking for new methods in breeding my animals~~ there is always a different way that just might be better than what I am doing~~

So listening to advice is very important~~ :cool: