J.W. Exotics Season update

Hey everyone, it's been a busy season here with the snakes and with everything else going on. I have 5 clutches on the ground so far, with a few more late clutches expected to drop in the next month.

I had a clutch of 6 het albinos hatch on 7/7

I struck out completely with a clutch of 5 from my female yellow belly who was bred to my male yellow belly and my male bee. One egg was bad, and out of the four good eggs, I hatched four yellow bellies. I was really hoping for an ivory or a pastel yellow belly to hold back, but no luck.

Clutch three is hatching right now; 8 big eggs from my bee bred to a large dinker normal female. The babies are interesting looking, so I wanted to share a few pics. The mom has one of the busiest patterns I've ever seen, so I wasn't expecting the babies to have such reduced patterns. And their heads don't look like your typical pastel and bumble bee heads. I can't wait to see what these look like after their first shed, but I'm excited about this one for sure.

Clutch #3 - Bee x dinker female

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Clutch four is a who's your daddy clutch from my VPI pastel female, which is due to hatch the first week of September, and clutch five is from my female BHB cinnamon girl, who was bred to my black pastel and my bee. That clutch was just dropped on 8/4, so look for updates on here and on my website soon.

Glad to see your still kickin!

Very nice man! I can't wait to see them all after they shed.

Yo Jake. Glad to see your still snakin'! How's the beer brewing going bud?

That bee is smoking! Can't wait to see it after it sheds. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Glad to see your still kickin!

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Hey Pat. I'm still alive, but not kicking too hard lately. I'm hoping to start posting on here again now that things seem to be slowing down a little for me.

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Originally Posted by Tazz27

Very nice man! I can't wait to see them all after they shed.

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Thanks! I'll be sure to post an update on this one after they all shed.

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Originally Posted by Mitch21

Yo Jake. Glad to see your still snakin'! How's the beer brewing going bud?

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Hey Mitch, I haven't brewed anything since I finished off the Czech Pilsner and the Irish red, but I sanitized a couple of fermenters and washed my Cornelius kegs so I can at least brew a 2nd version of the Pilsner. I plan to improve on that recipe until I have the perfect lager, but the red was so good I can't not make another batch of that, too, with a couple of tweaks from my original recipe.

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Originally Posted by m00kfu

That bee is smoking! Can't wait to see it after it sheds. :gj:

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Than! I was less than stoked when I saw that there was only one bee in this clutch, especially after striking out on the ivory clutch. But I definitely couldn't be happier with the quality of the babies that are hatching here. Being very selective in choosing breeding stock and which animals to pair up really pays off. I've seen killer bees that weren't as nice as the bee in this clutch.

Wow they are reduced and the head blushing :O.Congrats on everything so far :gj:

Pretty cool Jake, if you have a male in that clutch you'll have to breed him back to momma and see if you produce a super.

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the babies looking great... im til loving ur incubator... 1 clutch year that hatched out and 4 lil beauties... i was able to inquire a mini fridge and wanted to know if you have DIY or blog on how to make one...

Great looking clutch - love the "blotchy" patterns! :)

For the record, I bought my spider male (Vinnie) from JW last year, and he's a wonderful snake... big/healthy, handsome, and quite friendly to boot! :gj:

Nice reduced pattern on the bee and the head blushing on all those is amazing. They look like super pastel heads. Nice little project you have there

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Wow they are reduced and the head blushing :O.Congrats on everything so far :gj:

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Serpents_Den

Pretty cool Jake, if you have a male in that clutch you'll have to breed him back to momma and see if you produce a super.

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Thanks, I know that the bee and at least one of the pastels are males from a quick popping, so the bee will probably be getting bred back to her next year. The babies are 71g-73g out of the egg, and mom started eating great as soon as I took the eggs from her. She was about 3,100g before she popped, and is packing weight back on, so I'm hoping they will be ready next season.

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Originally Posted by patb201985

the babies looking great... im til loving ur incubator... 1 clutch year that hatched out and 4 lil beauties... i was able to inquire a mini fridge and wanted to know if you have DIY or blog on how to make one...

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Thanks. Glad to hear that you are liking your incubator. I don't have a DIY that I know of, but if you do a search hear I think I explained what I did when I made my wine cooler incubator back in 2006, and I know you will find others that members have written about it over the years. If you want to send me an email I can do a quick write up and answer any specifics you have.

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

Great looking clutch - love the "blotchy" patterns! :)

For the record, I bought my spider male (Vinnie) from JW last year, and he's a wonderful snake... big/healthy, handsome, and quite friendly to boot! :gj:

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Thanks, his siblings are the brightest spiders I have. That woma-ish female that produced that clutch really cleaned them up nicely.

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Originally Posted by bones93

Nice reduced pattern on the bee and the head blushing on all those is amazing. They look like super pastel heads. Nice little project you have there

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Thanks, when there were only heads pipping out of the eggs, I didn't know what I had. I don't know if I have ever seen pastels with heads like that if there wasn't a second gene involved, and if this bee had hatched from one of my pastel girls I would have thought he was a killer bee with that head.