A couple months ago, I posted about our first ball python eggs. The time has come and the eggs have hatched! Monday afternoon, my daughter came running down to tell me that one of the eggs had pipped:
On Tuesday, a couple more had pipped. They were very shy, hiding in their eggs when I tried to take pictures. I managed to catch one with it’s head out!
By Wednesday evening, the first two were out. The last little straggler waited until Friday morning to make it’s appearance. They had their first photo shoot on Saturday:
This has been such an exciting week! I can’t wait to do it all again! Maggie should be laying her eggs sometime this week – hoping for a good clutch!
Happy New Year!
2010 is off to a great start with the arrival of a long-anticipated litter of Kenyan sand boas! This female’s first litter arrived on 29 October 2008. In 2009, I paired her up earlier, witnessed a lock earlier, and saw her begin to grow earlier than in 2008. So, I expected the babies to arrive earlier than they did in 2008. Apparently, she had other ideas and held on to the babies for a good long time! Finally, when I opened her tub yesterday, she was no longer alone – there were 12 fat little worms in there with her! Look at that big pile of babies, no wonder she looked ready to explode!
Our very first clutch of corn snakes pipped last weekend! We were very excited as these are our first snake eggs to hatch. The father of this clutch is our very first corn snake, Stripey, that belongs to my son. He is amelanistic and possibly het for lavender & motley. The mother, Hyacinth, is a lavender motley that is het for amelanistic. So, we were hoping to prove out Stripey for one or both of the possible traits.
Here are some pics of the pippies!
By Saturday morning two were already out, quickly followed by a third.
We ended up with a total of 9 hatchlings. Number 10, another normal, pipped, but died in the egg shortly afterward. I’d been fighting mold on that egg during the whole incubation. We have six normals, two amel motleys, and one motley. So, Stripey has proven to be het for motley! WooHoo!
The rest of the hatchlings can be seen in the gallery!
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