Finally erythristic eastern babies August 2nd 2012

[zooplan]

After long lasting and excited waitingwhile I was jealously reading about all your offspring
I sat down at the sofa with my first offee of the day and had a short glance at my set up.
Surprise, surprise the big erythristic St.Matthews fimale gave birth in the night.
My coffee became cold...
Maybe she heard us talking at the dinner yesterday to make a meal of her if she doesnt give birth,
because she as the fatest snake in our stock ;-)

[chris-uk]

Bet you're glad you didn't cook her :)
Congratulations, now you know you need to post pictures.

[guidofatherof5]

Congrats Udo.
Glad you didn't have to eat her.:D

[EasternGirl]

Sounds like everyone is having wonderful baby surprises lately! Kind of makes me want more babies...kind of. It is so exciting to have new little ones. But...I think I have enough on my plate for now...I might have to eat some of mine! Lol....

[zooplan]

I had to work all day. so everything I was able to do was couting...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...39 40 41 42 43
healthy babies!
All siblings from 2010 and 2011 developed nice red pattern

[guidofatherof5]

43. What and awesome number of scrubs. Congrats.

[thamneil]

That's a load of little guys! Have fun raising that group up! Still waiting for pictures :)

[Invisible Snake]

Wow that's totally awesome, congrats!

[snake man]

Pictures!!!!!??

[zooplan]

Count the heads;)
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/showfull.php?photo=11059
These are all siblings of the clutch, but probably not all got a place in the upper layer.:D

[Thamnophis]

Great news, Udo. Congratulations!

[zooplan]

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF2491_1000.JPG
This is their mother, my wild sired St.Matthews female, born in 2008. She´s a big girl
weighting 236 gramms after giving birth and was star of several of my photo contest entries.

[thamneil]

Beautiful snakes you have. I hope my Carteret County Erythristic develops into something similar to your female.

[charles parenteau]

Congratulation very nice litter!!!

[mikem]

The mom is beautiful! Congrats on the babies! 43 little mouths to feed :D

[Invisible Snake]

What's your secret for having such a large litter? o.O

[zooplan]

I don´t know how she produced such a gorgeous litter.
It is her secret not mine.
Maybe some of the honor should go to the male, who delivered good sperm.

[Invisible Snake]

I don´t know how she produced such a gorgeous litter. It is her secret not mine. Maybe some of the honor should go to the male, who delivered good sperm. Thanks for replying, but what I meant by "your secret" I was wondering how long did you brumate the parents and at what temperatures? Did you wait for them to get to a certain age before pairing them up? Also did you feed the mom anything special while she was pregnant?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I think alot of those big erythristic garters and fl. blues have big litters i witnessed a big wildcaught ery have over 70 babies last year.

[EasternGirl]

That mother is simply stunning! And the babies are adorable. I think that if I looked in an enclosure and saw a pile of scrubs like that...I might faint! Big litter you have there! Congrats and good luck with them. Keep us posted!

[setfree]

The mother is absolutly gorgeous! :eek:

[ProXimuS]

Wow, those little babies are really pretty, but mama is goorgeous;)