Mother's Day litter!

[starmom]

Thanks again everyone, but I have some bad news. One of the sacs that came out yesterday had 3 babies in it. Yes...triplets! (My daughter almost fell over), 2 albinos and 1 het...the 2 albinos died during the night. So, final count is 7 albinos and 10 Hets.

Well, that's a bummer, but triplets are not exactly hardy. I'm glad that one still made it and 7 is an awesome number!

[snakelady]

Crazy, huh?! Very different from egg laying ball pythons!!

Yea! no kidding. lol




That's too bad about the triplets. I've never heard of triplets in snakes.
Still got a nice bunch, though.

[JimiSnakes]

If you look in the pic of the whole group, up in the right hand corner is the little het that is still doing good. The Albinos are a little harder to find, but they have the really bloated looking bellies.

[Patrick Long]

In your experience, do most triplets not make it?

[JimiSnakes]

In your experience, do most triplets not make it?

I've heard of twins and I've heard of them being fine. I've never heard of triplets before at all. I just wish they weren't coming out of the sac right after being born so I coulda got a quick pic, but they were ripping through immediately.

[Patrick Long]

I've heard of twins and I've heard of them being fine. I've never heard of triplets before at all. I just wish they weren't coming out of the sac right after being born so I coulda got a quick pic, but they were ripping through immediately.

Do you have any guess as to what happened?

[starmom]

Yeah, I don't get it. Since there was one sac, I would think that they would be identical; which they weren't since there was a het in there. Are boa twins always identical?

[cassandra]

Sorry to hear about loosing 2 babies...=P

[JimiSnakes]

Your guesses are as good as mine. I have no idea. It was odd to say the least.

[JimiSnakes]

Here is a comparison shot of the surviving triplet and another het: