18 babies 8 eggs

I was checking out youtube today and found this. !8 babies and only 8 eggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STOy...eature=related

HOLY CRAP! I DIDNT EVEN KNOW YOU CAN HAVE TWINs

how come they all look dead to me? do they just not move much when they hatch?

I cant see the vid cuz Im at work and its blocked but WOW thats crazy. Ud have to have at least 6 sets of twins and 2 sets of triplets. Ive heard twins isnt that uncommon but triplets, amazing, didnt think 3 snakes could fit into an egg. Hope they all did ok

Wouldn't it be a bad idea to start yanking the hatchlings out of their eggs before they come out, especially with special twins and triplets babies?

Isn't it possible that the snakes hatched...got startled and crawled into a neighboring siblings egg? And then the video maker removed the empty eggs trying to fool the viewer...

Just a thought...I've heard of it happening with other pythons.;)

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Wouldn't it be a bad idea to start yanking the hatchlings out of their eggs before they come out, especially with special twins and triplets babies?

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Absolutely. They need to absorb the yolk from their eggs during the hatching process. To remove them would cut them off from the nutrients they need to survive as hatchlings until they start feeding on their own.

Robin

well the way hes pullin em out so comfortably leads me to believe that he has already removed them from their eggs at some point. i bet there were 18 eggs and he just doubled and tripled a few up.

Yeah, it could easily be faked.

he said there were 33 eggs in the clutch and 42 babies...

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

he said there were 33 eggs in the clutch and 42 babies...

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Hmm it would not be the first time someone staged a load of bull :mad:

I've had 3 sets of twins in a 5 egg clutch of ball pythons, so I know it's not impossible in a clutch as large as retics have. Unfortunately for me only 1 set of twins hatched and only 1 of those babies lived. The other two eggs I opened up after the other eggs hatched and found dead twins in both eggs.

Mark

That video was filmed by Patrick at Prehistoric Pets. No lieing there...

That is awesome. You can see some yolks on some of the babies. Looks real to me.

Looks and sounds pretty fake to me. Looks very very much staged!

Cool video thanks for sharing.:gj:

I can also say the video is 100% real. A friend of mine was working there when those hatched out and told me about it.

Also, it is a bad idea to remove babies from their egg, but if you notice all the person in the video is doing is pulling them out a little bit for the video. They were not completely removed. Also, the person pulling them out of the egg is probably the owner, who has probably hatched out well over 2000 retics. So, I'm sure he knows the limits better than the average person.

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Originally Posted by RKO

That video was filmed by Patrick at Prehistoric Pets. No lieing there...

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Originally Posted by Hacker79

I can also say the video is 100% real. A friend of mine was working there when those hatched out and told me about it.

Also, it is a bad idea to remove babies from their egg, but if you notice all the person in the video is doing is pulling them out a little bit for the video. They were not completely removed. Also, the person pulling them out of the egg is probably the owner, who has probably hatched out well over 2000 retics. So, I'm sure he knows the limits better than the average person.

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Ah, well then I believe it's real and he certainly has more experience than I with pipping babies. Just seems harsh, hehe...=)

I hope they all make it!