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first success at breeding snakes.

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It just never ceases to be magical; the breach, the animation and the first curious interactions with the rest of the world. It's a little piece of God, even for those of us that are not particularly religious.

Congratulations and best of luck getting them to good homes!

/Daniel
 
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We have just given a home to one of God's animals.

It should do well we feed it water it give it a bed & well heating during the winter. It will become really at home in this peaceful atmosphere

O yes we are kind. But it is not the wretched cat it is a mouse she brought in & then let it go in the kitchen from where it has darted dramatically into one of the many holes left by stupid kitchen installers where now there is a mouse trap do not let the cat near as she will take it play with it then release it in another part of the house & then wife will plant so many mouse traps around the house that I will be frightened to sit down go to bed or even the loo as it will certainly come out & climb up my leg then she will clean down the kitchen tops three times before putting any food we eat on the top no thought for the mouse's food what so ever then the magnifier will come out to spot any droppings hoover out vacumn the whole house down to B & Q to hire a carpet cleaner & I will have left home to live at the Zoo as this would seem the safest place to be.

Laurie

PS thinks omission not thinking straight we have not named it yet !
 
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seems like a lot of bother Laurie...... a fortification to the fact that i don't do cats.

Also with all these snakes here ............................ we don't have mice :) :) :)

@ Daniel .... you're quite correct, you dont have to be religious to have the feeling there's something to it all.

whichever ones go to new homes they'll be sure of a good life as we'll only pass them on to people who are educated in the husbandry of reptiles.
 
Well done Colin. any signs of life in the other eggs yet?

Ian M
 
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We've cut "slits" in the other eggs (just to give them a helping hand) and there's movement in most.

The little chap above weighs in at a massive 44 grammes by the way, a far cry from his mum and dad at about 2 kilo. :)

Just have to wait for the new hatchlings to have their first skin shed and we can attempt to feed them.
 
Congrats colin, a great achievement . He looks quite chunky doesnt he? i was expecting it to look like a shoe lace!! cheers tony
 
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My friend Phill had a 11 foot burmese he had to give it to the cotswold wildlife park.

Martin
 
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my last Burmese was a 15+ft female albino who died of old age a few years ago. we've got a 6 ft male albino here at the mo. just waiting for him to grow up a bit (mentally that is:))
 
Congrats Colin, here's hoping the sixth one pops out soon...

May I ask, do they eat they're shell once they're out and how long and what do they eat...
 
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They dont eat their shell, its just leathery with no protein at all really.

They stay in the egg untill they absorb all the yolk basically, they even have a little slit on their under side where the reptile version on the umbilical cord was attached.

When they hatch they're about 12 inches long, they dont eat straight away, they will shed their skin for the first time before they will eat. at this size they can eat something up to the size of a half grown mouse.

so when they shed their skins we have the task of getting them eating, which can be a pain as they sometimes have no interest. some adult royal pythons have a tendency to go on fasts or stop eating for no reason, we had a female that didn't eat for over a year, we provided her with water and heat and thats all she wanted, when she started eating again absolutely snaffled them up.
 
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Long time ago we were in the jungle with some Ghurkas, we had a nice fire going and swapping storys when this huge snake fell in front of this ghurka.

Never seen such small guy move so fast, the smoke must have knocked the snake out cos it wasn't movin much any way fast as lightning this guys screamin like a banshy holding his slr like a bat and kills this snake he also smashed his rifle and bent it they then cooked it and ate it.

There's a story of a marine sleeping in the jungle he was woken cos he couldn't move his arm all he could make out were these glowing eyes, Being quite shocked he started to scream waking his mates who once lit the area.

Found a huge pithon had eaten up his arm and was stuck at the arm pit

Martin
 
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For those that are interested, Elaine has a 100% success on all eggs hatching which is great for saying it was her first time and even some of the more serious breeders have had a fair amount of failiure this year.

Here they are in all their glory

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Now just to wait 21 days for the other four to start hatching if all goes well.

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they're colours are at there best when there just born or just shed there skin.

Congratulations buddy

Martin
 
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thanks for the comments.

Andy they grow basically relative to the amount of food they intake. as a general rule with these they will grow about 1-2 inches everytime they shed their skin which will hopefully be about every two to three weeks.

they should eat a small mouse every five days at this size bit each snake is different and some don't follow the rules.
 
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WOW!! i too am a snake owner. i have a collumbian red tail boa constrictor called porshsa.. royal pythons are a beautiful snake with such a lovely personality. i had one called kane but sadly hes not with us anymore. :(
 
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Well we've had the other four eggs hatch.......

They seem to be "three 2-gene" and "one 3-gene" combinations.

The two gene will be fire x pastel ... called "firefly" and the three gene one will be Fire x pastel x yellowbelly called a "firefly yellowbelly" (strangly enough :) )

For those that are interested in genetics, these snakes will be able to combine with others to produce 3/4/5 gene snakes in the future when mature.

For those interested in the financial side of it these four are worth over £2,500.

here they are, third photo is the 3-gene

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An odd thing to say about a snake, but they are pretty!

2500, together or each. If thats for them all thats a bargian.

Ian M
 
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