Our 2012 Ball Python Clutches and Babies!

Well unfortunately what should have been clutch #7 was 5 slugs! wow! Never had a whole clutch slug out before... the female was one I picked up with a group of 10 females in January and after quarantine, I brought her in to the breeding rotation. She locked twice with my pinstripe, but must not have taken :(

So, instead, my clutch #7 is 3 eggs (and 2 slugs) from another girl that I picked up with the 10 mentioned... poor girls seem to want to have slugs! At least there are 3 good eggs - she also locked 3 times with my pinstripe, and once with my bumblebee.

Here it is:
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Pastel (1205-ball):
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...06164500_n.jpg

Pastel (1207-ball):
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Pastel (1209-ball):
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...94837978_n.jpg

Normal (1204-ball):
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Normal (1206-ball):
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Normal (1208-ball):
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...03640912_n.jpg

Yay, clutch #3 is out: 4 Butters, 3 Normals (one is really pretty) - puts my season total at 5 Pastels, 4 Butters, and 7 Normals... 19 eggs in the incubator, and 4 gravid girls who still haven't laid. One butter and one normal are almost out of the egg, and will post pics when they finally come out....


9 of my first 9 hatchlings have all eaten too! Great record so far!

1210-ball Butter:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-5-450x337.jpg

1211-ball Normal:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-1-450x337.jpg

1212-ball Butter:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-1-450x337.jpg

1213-ball Normal:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-2-450x337.jpg

1214-ball Butter:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-4-450x337.jpg

I love butters!

And those are stunning! Congrats on the healthy babies

More Babies!

1215-ball Butter Ball Python
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-1-450x337.jpg

1216-ball Normal Ball Python
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-1-450x337.jpg

Congrats on all the babies!

Have some beautiful Pastels that just hatched out... and clutch #8, 5 beautiful eggs from a girl I never saw lock... not really sure who is the sire, I put in every boy I had to see if she'd be receptive!

Clutch 08:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...01-450x337.jpg
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...03-450x337.jpg

1217-ball Pastel:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...lPastel-17.jpg

1218-ball Pastel:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...llPastel-1.jpg

1219-ball Pastel:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...llPastel-6.jpg

1220-ball Pastel:
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...llPastel-3.jpg


18 eggs in the incubator, 21 babies total already out... 2.2 Butters, 4.3.1 Normals, 2.3.4 Pastels :)

That is so neat. I can't wait to try my hand at breeding a clutch. Thanks for sharing

I suppose I've been falling behind in updating my thread this year! :) LOL!

Had a total of 9 clutches and 44 babies. The end results: 7.4 Pastels, 6.4 Butters, 8.6.2 Normals, 1.1 Pinstripes, 2.3 Spiders

I've picked a few for holdbacks, check em out here:
1201-ball a Spotless Pastel Male
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...stelMale-1.jpg

1210-ball a Butter Female
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...erFemale-7.jpg

1214-ball a Butter Female
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...erFemale-3.jpg

1223-ball a Pinstripe Female
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...peFemale-9.jpg

1232-ball a Spider Female
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...erFemale-3.jpg

I'm likely to also keep a Butter male too, as I have had 6 of them :)

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Had some other fantastic snakes this year :) Here's some of my favorite pictures of some of the snakes I still have right now :) I love taking photos of these snakes!

A beautiful butter male (1215-ball)
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-8-450x337.jpg

a little butter female (1231-ball) - she was from my 2 sire clutch of 8 eggs - produced 3 butters, 3 spiders and 2 pastels - same clutch that produced my keeper spider female
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...rFemale-15.jpg

another butter girl (1238-ball) - I just love this pic!
http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...erFemale-9.jpg

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I also ended up with two "minis" this year (from boob eggs) - but thankfully, both have taken meals and are growing now. This is one of them (he's quite a little dinker too!)

http://mojavereptiles.com/wp-content...-1-450x337.jpg

Nice! Man I can't wait to start producing some of my own clutches! I get jealous looking at all these babies ya'll are having!