As promised in our first round of Smiling Odds Gods, I had some more great clutches coming. I couldn't break a promise, so here is the story and the pics. First clutch to fully emerge was Monica's Mojaves. When we cut the eggs, there was one egg that had a baby that didn't look right. After watching it for 5 days, we still couldn't figure it out. Once it crawled out, it explained itself. A Pastel! What, we bred a Mojave to a Normal. Looking back at the breeding records, one of my Pastels did help start this girl off, and I guess some of his sperm squeeked by. We ended up with 2 Mojaves, 1 Pastel and 2 Normals. This was our first clutch that had dual sires. In the pic, the males are at the top and the females are at the bottom.
p.s. Robin, this is the clutch from that reduced girl that you like so much
Second clutch to hatch was VPI Axanthics. 2 of our female Hets decided not to lay this year, so I was thinking that we wouldn't have many Axanthics this year. They proved me wrong. We ended up with 7 out of 9 VPI Axanthics. I love these guys when they are hatchlings. I think they are my favorite snakes to watch crawl out of the egg. The 2 males are in the middle surrounded by all of their sisters.
One more round of Odds Gods Smiling to go. (It will be about a week)
Thanks for looking, and Have fun this season,