Did I just see baby boas?

[C.m.pyrrhus]

This morning was like any other. I woke up at 4 am to get ready for work, got to work at 5 am. Although today I had to leave at lunch to take my lady to see a doctor, it was pretty much routine.

Anyhoo, we go to the doc, pic up her prescription, grabbed some lunch and came home. I went in to clean a cage and to feed the Iggy, when I took a look into one of my boa cages.

"Good Lord, thats a huge crap!" I am thinking. Little did I expect to see boas squirmin' around. I was pretty darn excited.

"Hey hun! The boa had her babies!" I yell to my girlfriend from the herp room. "She had her babies".

Thing is, my boas mated back in two weeks time way back in Mid-October, so it has been a good 8 months since. I gave up a couple months on any babies for the most part this year. I also thought I had 2 males and one female, but turned out I had 2 females and 1 male (Now I know why the one male was mating the other, eh). This "male" was probbed as well, go figure... So the female I thought was gravid I suppose is not, but maybe more luck? Saturday was my birthday as well, so it is my own belated birthday gift to myself...

I ended up with 9 live, 2 stillborn and 2 slugs, aint to shabby for a first litter and not expecting anything.

To the pics -

I took a quick pic of one that I really liked. All of them are pretty dark in coloration, with some having some of the fading on the sides like daddy. Mom is a really dark boa, which I like.

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3526stripe_001.jpg

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/3526babies_001.JPG

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CM PYRRHUS:

Very nice indeed, congrats.

Your lucky you thought there was nothings and kinda gave up and BOOOOOOM you got it. Much better than most who expect and stress out for the full term waiting..........you did it right let nature take its course and your a grandfather, lol.

Congrats.

Cya...

Tony

[HetForHuman]

congrats man

good luck with them..

[MouseKilla]

Sweet partial stripe! Do either parent animals have it or anything like that?

[C.m.pyrrhus]

It was a pleasant surprise, to say the least. It was my first attempt with breeding boas and the mothers first litter as well. But 8 months...lol...still gets me.

Both parents are dark B.c.i. Neither have any kind of striping or aberrant patterns, although I have two with tail striping in the bunch. I also got some with some decent aberrant saddles. The female I previously thought was gravid swelled up like mad. Still may be...who really knows know. Still odd how I got babies from a 'male' that never showed any kind of typical ovulation or signs of being gravid. Just goes to show strange things happen.

The only reason the two males, as I thought anyhow, were placed together was because the cage holding the one 'male' bust pretty bad one day when I moved it, so I tossed the one in the others cage while I repaired it quickly. I guess that was the magic moment. That was when I noticed the one going after the other in a more than platonic way.

[C.Marshell]

Nothing quite like baby boas in the Morning!....or anytime for that matter! Congrats!

[foman]

Great lookin' little guys............congrats

[Melly18]

Congratulations! :D I wouldn't mind finding a few babies in our boa's cage :P