Triple Clutch!!!!

[pgr8dnlvr]

Well, I'm sure it's happened to some of you out there, but I'd be interested in knowing how many. I had an exceptionally rare occurance at my house on the first of August! A TRIPLE CLUTCH!!!

This was from my beautiful lavender girl, Kette. The first clutch was 16 eggs, 14 good, second clutch was 13 eggs, 12 were good. This was with no reintroduction?!?!? After the second clutch, she was recovering well and I was treating her with rat pups for food. One week I ran out of the rat pups I was feeding her and went back to mice. No dice, a refusal. This was not her personality but I thought perhaps I had spoiled her with the rats. So I tried mice for the next 4 feeds but nothing, I caved and went out to buy her a rat pup and she ate that one right away. I thought, BINGO! Problem solved and went about my merry way.

I was pleased with how well this girl had recovered from the egg laying, being fast, muscular and energetic while handling. I had removed her moist nest box/hide box a week or two ago for disinifecting and not put it back yet. I came to feed last night, I open the container and SURPRISE!!! Five very good, healthy, plump white eggs and three slugs!

I just can't believe the luck in this case! The eggs had just been laid so they weren't damaged at all from no nest box. All eggs had been sucessfully laid, a relief that there was not any egg binding, as there easily could have been in a situation such as this! I also handled Kette as soon as I dealt with the eggs and she seems like her regular self, unbelievable! I offered her a small hopper and she gobbled it right down, then went to rest in her dry hide.

I just couldn't be more pleased with this special, special girl! I hope she knows how grateful I am. I've gotta get my nice big excersize/display cage built in the next few months and make sure she's the very first one to use it!

Rebecca

 

[Nozomi]

Wow! Really, I've never heard of that before! Congratulations on your girl and her triple clutch!

 

[divapixie]

I've always wondered if triple clutching was possible... guess it is! Congrats to you!

 

[NI GUY]

I thought it was a myth,well done.

 

[zeeboismysnake]

congrats on the triple clutch! I've never heard of that before, cool tho

 

[Nanci]

What a good girl!!

Nanci

 

[Chris Olson]

Well.....congrats? That's wild. I have an Amel that triple clutches every year entirely by accident.....as in I only pair her up until I have eggs once. The other two clutches she does on her own. I wouldn't breed her at all if I thought she was in some sort of danger from triple clutching, but she's big, gains the weight back quickly and never misses a beat....

Chris

 

[cornmorphs]

i have known one, but the 2nd and 3rd clutches were almost total duds,.

 

[Demonique]

My little amel girl is currently gravid with her third clutch.

Her first clutch had 8 eggs, 6 good, 2 turned out to be infertile but the eggs all died about two weeks before their due date, babies dead in shell.

Second clutch had 7 eggs which she decided to lay outside the nest box beside the water bowl. They were all stuck together in a long string, one after the other and they were rushed to the Reptile Haven and its incubator. 5 babies came home with me last week (2 failed to hatch) and four are due their first feed, one already fed on Monday because my (now euthanised) '06 runt refused its pink.

She's due to lay quite soon, but unlike the first and second clutch she wasn't bred to the male.