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Old 10-08-14, 01:43 PM   #1
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Yolk Baby

Last year, Living Gems experienced our very first “yolk baby.”

We discovered her still buried in the slime pile -- quite literally: she was underneath the newspaper, which was drenched in clear thick birth sludge. At first we thought she was a stillborn, but that passed as soon as she started trying to defend herself against the unwanted intrusion of my hand.

After several minutes of struggle with slimy paper and slippery baby, we managed to untangle her from the mess and place her in a drawer:



We kept her very warm and humid to prevent the yolk from hardening. We gave her a day and a half to work it off, then decided to remove it ourselves. But when we set up to operate, we found she had knocked it off herself. A day later, most of the umbilical cord fell off as well. As her belly was still very large, we then added a 40-hour heat pack to give her a boost in digesting any absorbed yolk.



She thankfully pulled through fine, and after two sheds looked like this:



One year later, when she was finally sold, she was a perfectly healthy little girl who has eaten 32 times and shed eight times. The last photo I have of her was from December (aged four months), and she looked like this:



Score one for baby boa resilience!

May this year's litters be just as tough.

Thank you for reading,
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Old 10-08-14, 01:56 PM   #2
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Not only is she tough and resilient but beautiful as well!
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2 of my new favorite words. Birth sludge. LOL! Glad she made it.
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Old 10-09-14, 10:51 AM   #4
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Thats great to here! What a fighter! I just love the way BRBs look. Itll be a few years yet but a BRB and a jungle carpet are the next on my list!
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She was, Zoo Nanny -- and I hope still is for her new owner!!!
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LOL...and me too!
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Both are great choices. Please let us know when you decide to add the rainbow!
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Old 10-09-14, 03:22 PM   #8
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A very beautiful snake with a great story!!!
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Stunning patterns
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Thank you, Jim!
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Thanks Malgus, I agree she turned out well!
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