1st time breeder, 1st time babies

[crescend]

Well, we are finally successful!!! This is the first year that my 12 year old son has attempted to breed balls. The pairing was nothing spectacular, but wow what a ride!!! Our 50% het albino female layed 7 fertile eggs on 6/15/08, and shortly there after, we had one egg begin to go bad. With a great deal of advice from this forum, I became brave enough to remove the moldy egg from the others in the clutch that it was attached to. Around day 45, we noted that 3 other eggs which the original bad egg was sitting on began to show signs of moisture. Finally on day 55 we made the decision to cut 2 of the eggs as we weren't able to see any movement when candleing. On day 60 one of those 2 babies emerged from it's egg, and then the fun began. All of the remaining 5 uncut eggs pipped and left their eggs by day 61. All that remained was one of the 2 eggs that we had originally cut. We had noted that the "fluid" in the egg was extremely viscous compared to the others in the clutch, and due to the fact that we had not seen a great deal of movement for a couple of days, I used forcepts to break through and remove some of the membrane at the top of the egg. Imagine our surprise the next morning when we saw not one but 2 heads pearing out at us from the egg. Twins in his very first clutch. The twins left their egg yesterday, and have quickly become our favorites!!! What an experience for my son, and he's actually sorry that the fun is over for this year, even after staring at an incubator for 63days!!!

[ADEE]

CONGRATS!!! thats so exciting

[frankykeno]

How incredibly cool that a 12 year old not only is breeding snakes but got twins his first year up to bat! That's wonderful!

I see a big science fair project coming up here for him. There's tons of good stuff in this for him to use....breeding, egg development, genetics, etc.

Now of course, we want pics!

[crystal]

How incredibly cool that a 12 year old not only is breeding snakes but got twins his first year up to bat! That's wonderful!

I see a big science fair project coming up here for him. There's tons of good stuff in this for him to use....breeding, egg development, genetics, etc.

Now of course, we want pics!

i agree completely. thats so awesome.

[tideguyinva]

that was kewl and a pair on his first outgoing, amazing

[Sloburn]

Congrats.

Let me be the first to say though. Pics or it didnt happen

[Wh00h0069]

Congrats on your successful clutch, and the twins!!

[Larry Suttles]

Congrats on the new babies and experience

[ChicaPiton519]

i think that is totally awesome!

twins especially! lol

[Somed00d]

WE NEED PICTURES!!! Here is one to hold you over, a 2 week old mojave: