Some newborns....

[crimsonking]

Opened my female e. garter's box today to find she had given birth to 20 babies overnight. Here's a few. They all think they're something to fear!
:Markhttp://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/151garters2.JPG

[python_diva_06]

HOW ADORABLE!!! Their little faces are so cute!!!

[treegirl]

Nice picture! I love the patterns they have.

I found a wild garter snake that looks very much like your babies on the road about a week ago. I picked it up to move it because it couldn't get up the cement curb. The critter was fast and it released it's odor. ~stinky~

[gurkee]

Originally posted by crimsonking
They all think they're something to fear!

ROFL :D :D :D :D

Congratulations and have much fun with them.

gurkee

[Tim_Cranwill]

Very cool! I saw two of my garters give birth at the same time a few years back. It was quite a sight.

Cograts, Mark! :)

[Katt]

TOO CUTE FOR WORDS!!

Absolutely adorable!!!!!

[Simon]

Congrats~~!

Lovely looking garteres you have there!

[crimsonking]

Thanks everyone. Although they are not "blue striped" garters, some of the adults from my area do tend toward a blueish color as they mature. Some are very pretty.
:Mark

[Vanan]

Wow! Didn't know you had garters too man! Geez! What next? Nerodia? ;)

Cute babes!

[crimsonking]

Geez Vanan, you KNOW I have mangrove water snakes don't you?
You know, even with all the variety and all the morphs out there, it's still a thrill to see the babies of the herps you grew up with!
So......I usually have a lot of the native locals including racers and ringnecks and kings and corns and rats and coachwhips and waters and scarlets and... and.....
HA!
:Mark

[Vanan]

Geez Vanan, you KNOW I have mangrove water snakes don't you?

Doh! Hence the wink. You should try getting your hands on the albino ringneck!

[crimsonking]

There was an albino found here just a year or so ago. Somehow the finders thought they had a million bucks and wouldn't let anyone experienced help them out with keeping it. You can guess.... it's now in a jar.. Too bad.
:Mark

[Nicki]

Ssooo Cuuuuttee!! :)
There's just something irresistable about those little garter attitudes that makes them SUCH a joy to keep!
Congrats!

[BoidKeeper]

Very cool. Are they hard to get started? Will they convert to mice?
Cheers,
Trevor

[crimsonking]

Trevor, in my experience they will eat earthworms and fish, and frogs immediately, but I've never really tried to switch 'em to rodents. I have seen adults eat mice though on rare occasions. Still, I think they'd be no big problem. Easy enough to get feeder fish and worms though.
:Mark

[HerpHelmz]

Mark, congrats on the garters, you plan on keeping all of them?

I hate to go off the garter snake subject, but I have an albino ringneck snake. She recently laid 5 good eggs after I had her for 5 years. She was caught in West Virginia, I'm gonna try and attach the image.

http://www.freewebs.com/mikesnake/albinoringneckbanner.JPG

Michael

[MouseKilla]

Very cool!

I grew up with garters too, first in Saskatchewan then as a teenager in Ontario. I don't remember any of them looking like the ones pictured though, it's amazing the how different garters can look.

I ended up accidently "breeding" some once when I left 3 of them together in an aquarium for a couple of months.

I obviously had no idea what I was doing with the adults let alone the babies but they all ate for me without hesitation. At the time I thought it was pretty cool to watch chaos ensue after dropping a flopping goldfish into a tank with 3 adults and 17 babies. lol! Pretty dumb, but we all stated that way.

I never thought to try mice with them either but all the garters I have ever had were very much like kings when it came to fish and worms, watch your fingers!.