At one of the San Diego shows, a few years ago, I talked to the Sloan guys about a cool snake they had for sale. I believe it was a Lesser but cannot remember for sure. It was just a brilliant example of whatever morph it was, and in the conversation, they told me it hatched out of a Desert Clutch. I said a Desert clutch as in a Desert female laid the eggs. They told me it was a clutch of several slugs and one or two or three good eggs. I continued talking with them and they stated that a friend or someone they knew had several Desert females lay about 45 or so eggs, and something like all but 1 or 2 were bad/slugs. I cannot state for the record that this is exactly correct, it was a few years ago...but if you get 40 plus eggs and less than 10% are viable, that is not a great thing. If anyone knows the Sloan guys, maybe they can comment.
Dave
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