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Birthing Records
2010 babies
8th litter born 4/26/10- the granite checkered female gave birth to these cuties. She was on the small side and had several jelly beans and several stillborns.
7th litter born 4/22/10- this was from breeding my male Iowa snow het Nebraska albino to my female Nebraska albino het Iowa albino and anerythristic. Unfortunately there were stillborn Nebraska snow, Iowa snow, anerythristics, and 1 normal. Luckily though there was one perfect Nebraska albino and one Iowa albino. What a contrast in albino strains, it hard to believe that these two babies came out of the same mother, these two albino strains are clearly not compatible, the Nebraska albino is on the left and the Iowa albino is on the right side.
6th litter born 4/11/10- these babies were from the black back flame male bred to the low end flame female, unfortunately most of this litter was stillborn, but luckily 3 survived, two of them look like they will be nice quality medium to high end flames, and the other will be a low end orange flame.
4th and 5th litter born 4/7/10-interestingly these 2 females are sisters and last year they had their babies on the same day and this year same thing they both had their babies on the same day. Both females are red-sideds double het for albino and anerythristic (snow) the first female was bred by my albino male and the second female was bred by my double het albino and anerythristic male.
Female 1 (1st pic, taken in a five gallon bucket) had a total of 44 live healthy babies, 17 albinos and 27 normals 100% het albino. (now that is a bucket of babies)
Female 2 (2nd pic) had a total of 31 babies, 2 snows, 7 albinos, 9 anerythristics, and 13 normals 66% possible het snow. This is quite the pair of breeder sisters!!!
3rd litter born 4/4/10- a small litter of Iowa snow plains were born from a snow to snow breeding so they were all snows. Here is a short video of one of them being born (poor video but you get the idea)
2nd litter born 4/3/10- this litter is from a male snow red-sided bred to a female snow red-sided, so all the babies are snow red-sided. This girl went a bit early I am afraid, she had been pacing the tub for the last week and stopped eating a couple weeks ago, so I was worried about her, and sure enough she thru several jelly beans (unfertile eggs) and there were 5 fully developed stillborns, the great news in there were 4 perfectly healthy live snow babies born. One of them is very pale, the others are very pink
1st litter born 3/31/10 with a big surprise- this litter is from breeding the Carteret Co. Erythristic het for albino to the male Carteret Co. Erythristic het for albino. This was her second litter, but last year she only had the one live baby erythristic albino and the rest were stillborn. This year she had some jelly beans and a few deformed but 9 perfectly healthy live babies, the big surprise was that there was a melanistic in the bunch, which means that both parents are also het for melanistic, which was not previously known, this also means that there could have been a erythristic snow produced, unfortunately didn't hit the odds in this litter maybe next year. There is also one albino in the litter and one normal that already show quite a bit of color. The melanistic shows black spots like a black leopard, normally eastern melanistic are solid jet black with no pattern, I believe that this is a result of the combination of erythristic and melanistic genes, and have decided to call the combo, "Black Leopard". Unfortunately after a couple weeks the spots dissapeared and the leopard became a solid black melanistic animal, the melanistic gene was just too dominant over the erythristic genes.
Group photo below
The Black Leopard (erythristic melanistic)
The albino, erythristic, and melanistic
2009 babies-currently 9 litters have been born this spring as of 6/13/09 with 2-3 more females expected to have babies, so please check back. Once everything is sexed, and feeding well, babies will be posted for sale, please check the Currently Available for Sale page.
Litter #5 is important enough that it deserved to be put at the top of the list.
Introducing the WORLDS FIRST EVER PRODUCED: SNOW RED-SIDED!!!!!
This litter was produced on April 14, from my other pair of double het red-sided and this litter smashed the odds, producing 2 snows, 1 albino, 5 anerythristics, and 5 normals. One of the snows is missing from the group photo because it had just been born and was still sticky with membrane, but the two snows are pictured together with the one still trying to shed.
Here is some pics of the 2 worlds first snow red-sided garters. Notice how tranparent they are, you can see their blood vessels and organs, they both have shed now and appear to be healthy, hopefully they will eat and grow fast.
2009 litter#1 Yeah!!!! 1st litter of the year was born tonight on good friday April 10th.
These are from one of the double het for anery and albino (snow) red-sided. Ended up with 9 normals, 4 anerythristics, and 4 albinos.
2009 litter #2 Second litter born on April 11 from female snow plains that was bred by the same, produce 5 healthy snows, 3 stillborns and one jelly bean.
Litter #3 April 14 had a bit of a surprise. This was a cross between one of my female het xmas albino plains x male Iowa snow plains. It produced an anerythristic proving that the female is het for anery as well, a nice bonus. It was a small litter with 1 Xmas albino,1 anery, 2 normal that are 100% double het for Iowa snow, and 2 stillborns.
Litter #4 April 14, was an even bigger surprise, this was a cross between my other female het Xmas albino x the male Iowa snow plains, I always only breed one male to one female so I know this is true. It was expected to produce 50% xmas albinos and 50% double het snow normals, because the Iowa albino and Xmas are compatible, but instead produced 2 snows, 2 Xmas albinos, 1 Nebraska albino, 2 anerythristics, and 2 normals. Which proves that the het Xmas female is also het for anerythristic and Nebraska albino, and also that the male Iowa snow is also het for Nebraska albino, this litter could have even produced a Nebraska snow as well. This is not unlikely due to the fact that they were possible hets for Nebraska snow as well. What a bonus, and nice variety litter, definately a keeper female.
Litter #6 born 4/22/09 from Eastern female bred by 66% possible het Schuett snow.
There were many stillborns and jelly beans, but fortunately 3 survived.
Litter #7 born 4/28/09
last night I saw the female sibling to the cream snow Iowa snow plains squirming around and pacing around the tub before I went to bed and sure enough there were little surprises this morning. I saw one baby in the tub so I opened it up and expected to see a small litter like her sisters, but was surprised when I lifted her hide up to find 18 little heads looking at me. There were 6 stillborns and 2 jelly beans too, unfortunately. They are all really big fat babies though. Surprisingly there was one born that is crem colored with yellow eyes again,not in the picture, pictures later as it was having difficulty shedding and is on a wet paper towel. I have a new theory now that maybe the cream colored ones are both Iowa snow and Nebraska snow and the same time and the combo causes some difficulty oxygenating blood at birth, I will need to do some outcrossing breeding in the next couple years to prove or disprove this theory, but by the number produced and the ratio produced could fit the model of being homogygous for the 3 genes: Iowa albino, Nebraska albino, and anerythristic.
Litter #8- born on 6-4-09 from Carteret Co. double het for erythristic albino bred to the same, she had 5 stillborns (4 normals and 1 albino), but luckily 1 healthy male erythristic albino was produced pictured below. This guy should really color up as it grows.
Litter#9- 6/13/09 not really a litter, 1 big llive healthy baby, 1 stillborn, and 20some jelly beans. This was a surprise as the mother is Ruby who had a large batch of jelly beans this spring late March, so I had wrote her off untill next year, she was eating 1 mouse per week like clockwork until she refused last night, but I didn't really think anything of it. This morning I was checking to see if 2 other females had given birth yet and was shocked to see a baby snow in Ruby's tub. This is a big baby though and it ate a rosie this afternoon.  |
