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twins

Italian Python

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Hi guys, look at this surprise!
anery het snow twins!!!!!!
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So how common are twins that we've seen 2 cases this close together? I'd flip if I saw 2 heads poking out. In a good way obviously, lol. Congrats man :cheers:
 
I don't think it's all that common, or at least it didn't used to be. I remember Mike McEachern saying in his book, that out of approx. 1000 eggs, there was a single pair of twins :cheers:
 
My first year breeding corns (last year) i got twins... only thing was... they were conjoined and horribly deformed. Heart on the outside, joined at the throat down to the heart.... in such a way that their mouth had two lower jaws, two upper jaws/heads, and one single hole for food to go down. Below their separation and exterior heart, each single tail deviated into peppermint-patty lozenges.... so severely kinked they were kinked into solid spirals. I euthanized them after taking a photo. I've bred kingsnakes two years and always get one HUGE egg that I'm SURE must be twins.... but I always just get some HUGE hatchling kingsnake from the egg instead.
 
Hi,

For those of us with a morbid fascination with mother nature playing tricks on the circle of life, is it too gruesome a picture to post or do you feel it wouldn't be appropriate? I'm just curious what those conjoined twins would look like. I've seen that old picture of the bicephalic cornsnake a million times, but this sounds a lot different. Even if you don't post it, it sure sounds fascinating. I guess when you've got as many breeding snakes and babies as you and some of the other breeders here do, you guys are bound to come across some pretty interesting things that some of us just plain pet snake owners would never get a chance to see.
 
Well I'm no big time breeder, I had three clutches and one double clutch last year and that is the likely scope of clutches I'll have this year too. I'll post the pictures I took, such as they are. I still have the snake/s frozen. Not sure why.
 

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