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lol. I remember reading that on year Ralph had 69 out of 72 females lay! Thats crazy. But then again, that's Ralph...
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That's awesome Tim. You should do this every year so you (and us) can compare how much your business grows!
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Thanks J.R. I actually keep records like that every year, and still have the numbers for 2006. So, I am sure that we will have them again next year. I need to get into record keeping gear, as the next breeding season is around the corner. I can't believe it's already here, as our last hatchling just came out. I may very well be trying to get a hatchling to take it's first meal when we get our first copulation. WOW, how time flies.
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This was pretty quick of an "off season". I dont mind, breeding season is fun!
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Good stats Tim. I try to keep some sort of records. Not as detailed as yours. Here are a few stats from my second year of breeding ball pythons.
26 breedable females
21 total clutches
Largest clutch 13 eggs
smallest 1 egg 7 slugs the one egg went bad (poss het clown)
Larget baby 92 grams from a het pied to a poss het pied that produced a pied
1 set of deformed twins
1 severely kinked baby
Those numbers are accurate.
These are approximate sorry water bowl got spill on my notes.
118 eggs
11 slugs
4 died during incubation
3 died from not eating
Most of my cluthes were poss hets (pieds,ghosts,clowns,albinos)
Did hatch a pied an albino 2 super pastels
This coming season will not be as good. Females are a little light. I should have more slugs this season due to that. Plus the 60 + hour work weeks coming up will not help things. Gotta get the pet store open ASAP.
Good luck to everyone this season. Great numbers time. I wish i kept better records. I mainly worry about who the parents are and who ate.
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Great numbers Thomas. It looks as if our seasons were very similar, except that your bred to lay ratio was much better than mine.
I have always loved numbers, and will probably post something similar to this every year.
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Did you post your stats last year, if not I'd love to see them? I find the numbers interesting too! I love making those kind of comparisons. I will be posting my stats next year (hopefully, right now I'm trying to figure out what to do breeding wise after my pastel dying) But so Far I keep stats on all of my snakes, how well they eat (time wise) as well as how often they shed and so on.
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Great post Tim! It is so fun to find someone as anal as I am when it comes to numbers and our breedings. Following your order, here are our stats:
Total females breeding this year (some are held back each year even though they may be up to size): 26
Total females that copulated at least once: 25
Total females to lay eggs: 18
Total Slugs: 5
Total infertile eggs: 0
Total eggs that went bad during incubation: 9
Total good eggs that went full term: 110
Total hatchlings: 110
Total hatchlings that died: 0
Final Sex Ratio: 68.42
Lightest Hatchling: 35 grams
Heaviest Hatchling: 95 grams
Average Hatchling Weight: 67 grams
Started cooling in October and pairings in November
Stopped pairings in April
First clutch on April 2
Last clutch on September 5
Longest time between POS and egg laying 35 days
Shortest time between POS and egg laying 25 days
Most locks observed between male and female that didn't result in eggs 13
Fewest locks observed between male and female that did result in eggs 4
Number of males that locked but did not reproduce 1 (ghost)
Most prolific male (fathered most # of babies) Super Pastel
We also run most of our males through no more than 5 females with an average of 4 females to every male. We do back up our breedings with several males to a female; always co-dom though so we can be sure of the normal looking babies.
Tim, I'd like to trade sex rations with you! Good luck to everyone with your breedings this year.
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Originally Posted by Alice
Great post Tim! It is so fun to find someone as anal as I am when it comes to numbers and our breedings. Following your order, here are our stats:
Tim, I'd like to trade sex rations with you! Good luck to everyone with your breedings this year.
Great numbers Alice. I do have the extra data that you posted for our animals as well, but didn't think to post it. This has been a very fun thread, and I wouldn't mind seeing it done every year. I'll try to stay on the ball in case someone forgets.
As for sex ratio, I'm sure we'll trade this year, as you can only carry luck with you so long.
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Hopefully in a few years Ill have 40 breeding females. Thats when it gets really fun, huh Tim? :cool:
