As many of you know I breed African House Snakes. I just recently picked up two from Dr. Neil Ford of UT Tyler and one was a bit small to breed for my taste. Neil had already bred both so my plan was give both a few weeks of heavy feeding then breed the bigger girl and hold off on the smaller gal with heavy feeding through the winter.

Everything went well and the bigger girl bred to one of my males strait away and is now gravid. All good news.

Next bout of good news apparently the smaller female was still carrying sperm from her last breeding and has been gravid a while and just laid eggs yesterday.

The bad news is I never knew she was gravid, she was not very distended, never stopped eating, etc. So she laid in her water bowel a total of 10 eggs and due to that fact at least 4 if not 5 are bad. The bowel was low on water so at least 5 are still good 1 of them is very iffy.

The other down side is Neil was breeding purely for research and did not care about color, pattern, etc. In fact I have no idea what the sire looked like. So bad news, I lost 5-6 eggs and have no genetic details on the father.

But the really good news is I now have 5-6 extra babies on the way and the babies could be something cool. The other good news is momma is chowing down on food and should get beefed up nice before she meets one of my males for a controlled breed,