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Rough 2nd Year

airenlow

airenlow

hope is not a strategy
After last year's slugs and stuck eggs, I knew this breeding season could only be better. Well, Murphy isn't making this uphill battle any easier...

Cinder X Butter Motley (21 slugs)
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Charcoal het Anery Amel ph Hypo Blood X Amel het Anery Blood ph Hypo Stripe (4 questionable eggs and 15 slugs)
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Blood het Lav X Lav Blood (6 good eggs and 20 slugs)
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I have 2 more clutches left...fingers crossed for better results!
 
Oh no, that really sucks Josh, I guess you need to have a "Murphy go away" exorcism or something. At least you did get a couple of good eggs so far, I wish you better luck with the other clutches.
 
Bummer Josh. Am keeping everything crossed, and wishing you the best of luck, for the remaining girls to lay some good eggs.
 
Their weights still look good. You can always try them for a second clutch. I'm doing that on my ladies that slugged out this year (3 so far).
 
At least I won't be overrun with babies. :rolleyes:

Susan said:
Their weights still look good. You can always try them for a second clutch. I'm doing that on my ladies that slugged out this year (3 so far).
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I was thinking about it. We'll see how they put weight back on...
 
Bummer man!

I know the feeling. One of the reasons I started keeping a larger collection was so I'd have a better shot at projects when some slugged out.
 
airenlow said:
After last year's slugs and stuck eggs, I knew this breeding season could only be better. Well, Murphy isn't making this uphill battle any easier...
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Josh,
I was thinking the same thing. Last year I had the worst year as far as fertility for all the years I've bred snakes.........ever, Well until this year of course.

I'm sure there is ALOT more breeders who are getting the same thing but just don't post about it. Anyway, so far this year for me, I've had 706 eggs laid with 287 of those being infertiles.

That leaves me with 419 eggs that appeared fertile at deposition. I have tossed about 5-8 of those out so far. I still have 6 female left to lay. I'm thinking rather than Murphy having a hand in this, it's more of nature's way of saying..........nope, don't need this many corns produced and in a suck @$$ economy/market right now, it may be a blessing.

One thing that has me VERY curious though is how many of us that are seeing such bad fertility......what is the ratio of ones who breed their own food supply and who purchases frozen from a feeder company????
I'm definatly not trying to place blame on frozen feeder companies, but it make me wonder if there is something to it???

Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!
 
@airenlow; that blood lavender is a gorgeous animal! Real pitty she slugged out for you..

I had 2 out of 2 clutches so far which were only half fertilized, and most of then perished later on... so 3 eggs out of about 27 eggs... but.. at the moment a female is laying a huge clutch and I see fertiel eggs only from the 2 glimpses I took. I hope it does not mean Murphy decides to egg bind her instead of slugging..
 
@ Walter, I use both. I have had only seven pairings this year, but I haven't seen any worse results from my "live only" eaters vs the "f/t" ones- the live eaters get mice I produce here myself.
I'm with Susan, I'd try for a second clutch, those snakes don't look in bad condition to try again, you could hardly tell they laid a clutch if the eggs were not in the pic.
 
ghosthousecorns said:
@ Walter, I use both. I have had only seven pairings this year, but I haven't seen any worse results from my "live only" eaters vs the "f/t" ones- the live eaters get mice I produce here myself.
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Yeah, there may be nothing at all to it. It just makes me wonder because back when I raised my own food supply, it didn't see anywhere near the infertility as I have the past couple years feeding strickly purchased T/F :shrugs:

Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!
 
I've had quite a few slugs myself. I am blaming it on the weird weather this spring. From cold to hot back to spring like with very little in between.

Josh sorry to here about the slugs.
 
I think everybody's crossed appendages did the trick!

Hypo Blood ph Lav X Normal het Hypo Lav Blood (21 good eggs so far)
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