omg!! Black Racer Eggs!!!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

well... yesterday i was feeding the new garter girl (whom i have named woofer because she eats everything in sight right out of my hands), and I heard some snakey flatulence to the right. So I look over and my black racer is sitting there alertly staring at me as usual, and she pooed... and then a minute later a small egg came out! I was like... omg! She IS gravid!

I had a suspicion she was when she arrived because she was "chunky" for a racer, but couldn't feel any eggs. Well now i know why... their eggs are small! they are at most, 2 inches in length, I put her in a laying box with moist paper toweling and yesterday nothing all day, but this morning she is now in that egg laying trance and there are 4 in the box and I can see a whole lot more coming! This snake probably exceed 4 feet in length... and with such small eggs... I might have my hands REALLY full soon.... :eek:

So lets play the guessing game... how many eggs will Shiggles lay? (yes its Shiggles, not squiggles)

I will post pics today when I get home from work and have time to do so :)

[Lori P]

Congrats, Shannon-- I think?!! LOL I'm guessing 24 eggs!! Goooo Shiggles!!!

[count dewclaw]

Congrats. I'll guess 23 eggs.

[Odie]

Congrats. I'll guess 13 eggs :)

[Zephyr]

16's my guess.

[anji1971]

Oh, I love these guessing games!! I'll go with 18 eggs!
And congrats, Shannon!:)

[Sid]

Congratulations, Shannon and I'll guess 21.

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

ill guess 15

[NikkiSixx]

im guessing 24 eggs!!! have fun with all the lil racers:D!!! oh and congrats!!

[Charlet_2007]

my lucky number is 19... way to go Shiggles!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D I'd love to have one lol

[Snaky]

Congrats! I have no idea how many eggs is normal, but I guess 14 :)

[Loren]

22.

And you are welcome to ship a hatchling my way:)

[larean]

Congratulations:)
20

[lestat]

I think it will be 17. Good luck with them

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

well... we have 14 eggs, all of which appear to be healthy! One I am going to watch but it may pull through.... I really hope this clutch pulls through, it was a surprise just like my last clutch and I had to make a emergency incubation box. I am using wet paper towel (i like it because its clean and seems to supress any mold) and I am keeping them in on the dark side of my savannah monitor's light compartment... I did this with my rat snake eggs and had 100% success so lets hope this works! Good job Shiggles! I can't wait to see baby racers peeking at me in 2-3 months! mean... snappy... bitey... picky eating...baby racers!:D

My babies are coming my babies are coming ::rocks back and forth in fetal position::

Sorry but Im not on my latptop yet and thats the computer I need for the pictures.. so stay tuned! theyll be up in a few hours!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Snaky, I'd love to send you a baby, but you are very far away, and plus they haven't hatched yet! so... we will have to see! I beleive there is a tie between two runners up? I sure as heck am glad she stopped at 14, thats already too many racers at once for me :o

[adamanteus]

I guess 14. D'oh!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

do'h! i freakin forgot my camera at my house... the pics of the racer will have to wait till tomorrow :(

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

so its between odie and me? odie you can have it

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

lol honestly if all of them hatch I really don't mind giving you both one... I am not greedy! if you want one, are willing to pay shipping, and the snake is steadily feeding I don't have a problem with it.

[Snaky]

Woohoo, I won! :D
It's indeed a bit far and will cost a lot to send it to me, so you can decide what to do ;)

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Heeeeeere she is! Proud Mama Shiggles while laying the clutch! She acted as if she had NO IDEA I was there when I took these pics!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Other/020.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Other/022.jpg

[drache]

great photos
she's a beautiful snake

[anji1971]

Nice pictures! Can't wait to see how cute all the little speedies will be!

[Lori P]

Oooh, she really is beautiful. Congrats, can't wait to see how many hatch!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

VERY cool!!!!! GO Shiggles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[count dewclaw]

She acted as if she had NO IDEA I was there when I took these pics!

Yaah...she was a little busy. :eek::D

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

some of the eggs look not so oval-ish? is that normal? i havent had my first egg laying clutch yet but i remember in pics of honduran's eggs there pretty perfect

[kaiman]

Congratulations!!!!!
I have just registered in this forum. And I did it because I saw your post.

I love this snake.

Would you sell me 3 babies??:rolleyes:

Please, please. please, please, please :D

I can continue all year long

Please, please, please.............

Nce to meet you all

[kaiman]

Hi. I´m new here. I found this forum looking for racers and I found them and also lots of interest thigs, so I will be around here from now on.

What will you do with all the babies??

If you plan selling them, please reserve me 1.2 or maybe more. I really love this ones!!!!

Thanks.

[kaiman]

Hello again. I´m new here.
I wrote mi first post lots of times but.......

Does anyone knows why all my post vanisheses??????? :mad:

I´m interested in racers. What will you do with the babies??

Congratulations.

[drache]

Hello again. I´m new here.
I wrote mi first post lots of times but.......

Does anyone knows why all my post vanisheses??????? :mad:

I´m interested in racers. What will you do with the babies??

Congratulations.

your post aren't vanishing
I see them
welcome to the forum
it's gotten so busy around here, others may be missing your posts
perhaps you could introduce yourself in the welcome lounge - that usually gets people's attention

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

well, all but 2 of the eggs were infertile... nothing inside. The other two are doing well... growing plumper and lets hope for 1.1!!!

[drache]

sorry about the infertile ones
I've never had eggs from anything other than chickens, so I'm wondering how you can tell
can you actually see that they're empty at a certain point?
do you have to hold them up to light?
just curious

[el lobo]

12. I guess 12 eggs.

[jeanette]

thats great congrats :)

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

You can candle snake eggs just like you do to chicken eggs. But with snake eggs, you can usually tell the fertile ones from the not fertile ones almost immediately. And if not, they will show themselves within a few days of incubation... they wills tart to shrivel up and decay. I had a big suspicion that since only a few of the eggs had an harder white outer shell layer that most of the clutch was not going to work out. But it's okay... I have cornsnakes and graybanded kings on the way!

[Odie]

Hi, from Oregon, Kaiman :)