BHP clutches 3 and 4

[Derek Roddy]

Victoria gave us 9 pearly whites.







Here's the pairing...80 Mile Beach Westerns




And, this bad picture is Mrs Howle. Took it with the camera phone and forgot to take a good one with the camera. Was too excited to think.




Here is this pairing... Axanthic to Axanthic het





Woo Hoo...gonna be a long 65 days!!!

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[Wama]

Congrats, and hope all goes well with incubation

[NextMorph]

Wow, that is fantastic! Up here it's certainly not common to hear about someone with 4 BHP clutches!! :| I'm sure it's not common there as well. :P Such wonderful snakes. Thanks for posting!!

[Derek Roddy]

Originally Posted by NextMorph

Wow, that is fantastic! Up here it's certainly not common to hear about someone with 4 BHP clutches!! :| I'm sure it's not common there as well. :P Such wonderful snakes. Thanks for posting!!

Thanks, yeah, it's not often you see keepers getting more than 1 or 2 clutches each year. Myself and my buddy Tom Keogan are producing more of these animals than anybody else I can think of ATM.
There are things about this species that work with other species but, kill BHPs (like over feeding).
That's why you don't see many of them being produced. Keepers are too eager to do what is written in the books, condition females, get them up to "breeder weight" and, not what they observe themselves.

I always observe the animals and both myself and Tom has made changes to the way we keep these animals that have allowed us to be more successful than most other keepers following the books.
A lot of it is the sheer numbers we have. I have over 100 BHP and Tom does as well. So, our success could be just based of the numbers we have but, I don't think so as the same females are producing great for us over and over...when most keepers haven't accomplished that so much.

Originally Posted by Freebody

I don't even know of anyone in Canada breeding them to be honest. I hope they all hatch out good and healthy, with any luck some twins

Mickey at Pro Pythons has the nicest ones up there. He's got some stellar western types and another buddy of mine Mike Aldrey (sp?) has possible het albinos from Piet in Europe. Neither one of them have produced anything though.

Originally Posted by smy_749

Do we get special forum friend discounts?

Of course! Haha. Although, like most all my clutches...I'll be keeping almost all of them back for my breeding trials!

Originally Posted by smy_749

Derek is your axanthic the male or the female? Hopefully you get a high percentage of axanthic babays. After you minus the ones you give me, you should atleast break even!

The male is the Axanthic in both pairings number 4 clutch (and number 5 which I haven't posted yet), he bred to his mother and a sister.
Fingers are crossed.

Cheers everyone, more to come....hopefully.

If anybody has any questions about the BHP...please feel free to ask. I'll inform ya the best way I can.

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[Freebody]

I don't even know of anyone in Canada breeding them to be honest. I hope they all hatch out good and healthy, with any luck some twins

[NextMorph]

I know of two people in Alberta working with them.

Mark of GoneSnakee and
Tracey of Celtic Serpents

Anyways.. 4 clutches is absolutely awesome. I can only imagine your excitement, Derek!

[h3h]

Awesome, congrats!

- h3

[smy_749]

Do we get special forum friend discounts?

[NextMorph]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Do we get special forum friend discounts?

Hehehe.. I like the way you think.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by NextMorph

Hehehe.. I like the way you think.

Your just lucky I'm not into balls, and no from canada or I'd be asking you for the forum discount too :P

[NextMorph]

Hahaha. Hey.. i breed things other than balls. And we're your closest neighbor!! :P

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by NextMorph

Hahaha. Hey.. i breed things other than balls. And we're your closest neighbor!! :P

I'm only like 8 hours driving from canada I think. I live in northern CT near the mass border. :-P

[NextMorph]

Yes.. quite close to Canada. Unfortunately.. the opposite side from where I am. :P Hahaha.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by NextMorph

Yes.. quite close to Canada. Unfortunately.. the opposite side from where I am. :P Hahaha.

Thats ok I don't enjoy traveling by car when I can just take an airplane haha 23 seperate trips on airplanes in the past 4 years, and only 2 of them were the U.S. (california and hawaii) haha tomorrow will be 24!


Derek is your axanthic the male or the female? Hopefully you get a high percentage of axanthic babays. After you minus the ones you give me, you should atleast break even!

[Freebody]

funny I know mark and Mickey, I have purchased snakes off both of them, yet I didn't know they bread bhp lol I have not seen them produce any in the few years I have known of them unfortunately. I am a huge fan of these beauties. your doing the world a great justice lol I just wish you were doing it in Canada :P