Hi Guys -Thanks for all the shared excitement, I am really excited and my family is ok with the reptiles but they just don't get all excited about them so it's nice having other herp lovers to share my exciting news with.
I did remove the eggs from the mother, I built an incubator last year. Its about 48" tall, 30" wide and 20" deep. It's a little small for the BP clutches. I had built it for my corn clutches last year, so I built it according to the egg boxes I had used for the corn eggs. I will build a larger incubater next season.
This clutch of babies are 66% het pied, that means from a clutch of 4 eggs I should get 1 Pied, 2 Het pied, and 1 Normal. I will keep the Pied(s)
and any females. I will breed the females back to their father, and breed the Pied accordingly, hopefully any Pied(s) will be male(s). I am hoping that 5 th egg will be a second Pied. Of corse these numbers are all just numbers, I know of people who have bred a het to het and got all Pieds and people who have bred a het to a het and got all possibles. You just never know what you are going to get.
Hockeymom