POLL: What was your success rate in 2007?

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Originally Posted by Larry Suttles

I'd say I'm in the low 40's as per females bred to females that laid. Keep your eye out for the great snow storm on 08/09 though!

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Can't wait. I loved it on days that it snowed. I would come home to a ton of locks.

I am not sure what season you are refering to, but for the 07/08 season, I belive we are 61% (I have to go back and check the number that we bred). I think we are sitting at 45 clutches from 73 females bred.

I went into breeding with the notion that I wasn't going to produce more than 7 clutches a season figuring roughly 50 offspring was about all I wanted to deal with. This was really the first year we dug ourselves and bred and overall we did better than I expected.

We decided we'd breed 10 females -- hoping to hit our goal of 7 clutches. Of that 10 we got 9 clutches -- all good eggs all healthy babies so far (knock on wood). We also had a few smaller but older girls that we paired off once or twice later in the season and we got clutch from one of them as well. So in all we went a little over our 7 clutch limit -- and hit (I guess) about 80-90% of our breedings. We also had three ladies here on breeding loan that successfully reproduced as well. I do think we had quite a few more low fronts hit the west coast this season than normal which I think played a big part.

We tried 5 females this year...got 3 clutches (possibly a 4th is brewing). Out of those 3 clutches we produced 18 eggs which all hatched successfully - 17 perfect hatchlings, 1 with a slight kink (she was in a boob egg).

We had three clutches this year. clutch sizes were 9,10, and 3 eggs. the first cluch hatch at 100% and the other two clutches are still in the bator cooking at day 41 and 33. In the 10 egg clutch all eggs were fertile at lay but one of them turned bad about day 35 the veins started to die off but so far it all goes well we will have 21 healthy hatchling in a few weeks. Not to shabby for three cluches. I believe both female that laid the 9 and 10 eggs clutches are both around 9+ years old and old birthing records from the 10 egg clutch mom said she had laid 13 the year prior but half slugged out. Anyways I would say we had a great year so far and hit 7 pastels out of the first clutch of 9 and six were female so i cant complain even with the one bad egg i would say so far a success rate of 99.9999%:D

I bred 3 girls and had 3 clutches. 17 eggs and 1 slug. One clutch is still in the incubator due 9/11. All eggs still looking good.