Babies!!

[bio6464]

Just got in from cutting the grass and my big eastern apparently was expecting. I don't have a count or pics yet, but I'll get both once I get them seperated and clean up the mess. :eek:
Jerry

[adamanteus]

That's great news, Jerry! Get that camera going!

[GartersRock]

Awesome!! Can't wait for pics!!

[crzy_kevo]

sweet hopefully this will be another baby week :D

[infernalis]

Congratulations Jerry:D have a cigar.

[bio6464]

Thanks everyone, 23 healthy babies...no stillborns. :eek: Here are the first pics, more to come.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/babies1.jpg
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/babies2.jpg
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/babies3.jpg
This one kinda shows their size, they're big babies.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/babies4.jpg
I'll be releasing almost all of them where I found mom (now that the river/flooding has gone down), I will keep a couple of the cutest ones...although they're all adorable. :D
Jerry

[adamanteus]

Fantastic! And some of them sloughing already!

[crzy_kevo]

wow those are big babies and oh so adorbale congrats jerry

[anji1971]

Nice turnout!!:)
And they're adorable.......how will you choose just a couple?

[bio6464]

Nice turnout!!:)
And they're adorable.......how will you choose just a couple?
DOH...good question, but I will. Most of these are going back to keep the local population growing.
Jerry

[anji1971]

I had to let the kids pick two. I just couldn't decide on my own.
And then I kept the "runt" as a last minute adoption.;)

[GartersRock]

Nice!! Those are gonna be some pretty adults!

[Garter_Gertie]

Those are BIG babies??? Bless my stars and garters! I wonder what small babies look like. Cute little wigglers!

[Thamnophis]

Very nice result.

[jitami]

Aw, more babies! Congrats Jerry, they're absolutely adorable!!!

[Kevin_is_a_herper12]

That mama snake must have been huge...beautiful babies.

[Sid]

Congratulations, Jerry. Very nice babies:D

[infernalis]

That is a handsome clutch of baby garters:D

[Hornets23]

Yeah thats what i was thinking....how small are the smaller ones?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

thats quite a lovely heaping plate of snake S'ghetti there!

[Lori P]

Very nice indeed. They look happy and healthy!

[infernalis]

Yeah thats what i was thinking....how small are the smaller ones?

Here is an Eastern (Sirtalis) born just last week, this is what they look like small.

The water dish is the cap off a spice bottle, about 3/4 inch round.

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/babs/cap1.jpg

[anji1971]

Awww, that's still the cutest pic I've seen in a long time!
Most of Chili's were that tiny. Sweetpea is still not much bigger!:eek:

[Aundrea]

OMG what CUTE BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love them eyes!!! Congrads!!!!!! :D

Wayne what a cute pic!!!!!!

[zooplan]

This one kinda shows their size, they're big babies.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/babies4.jpg

Congartulations, Jerry.
This was a small baby too, a few weeks after birth, so little that she didn´t came thrugh.
http://www.zooplan.net/images/winz.jpg

[bio6464]

Thanks for all the kind words, I really didn't expect to have this many babies. :eek: I guess I'd better go tomorrow and get some worms, the nightcrawlers I'm feeding mom won't cut it. ;)
Jerry

[anji1971]

Actually, if you chop the nightcrawlers up into little pieces, they'll work just fine!:)

[Snaky]

A very nice result, congrats with the babies :)

[GartersRock]

TINY!! I just weighed my wee little male flame Johnis and he is 3 grams. lol!!
As oppossed to the former "Bob" Puget Sound who weighed in at 103 grams today on empty!!

[bio6464]

Well I tried the first feed today, all but 1 have now eaten. Most ate cut up worms, a couple ate cod pieces. Now I have to decide which 2 to keep...all the rest will be released this weekend.
Jerry

[Snake lover 3-25]

awwww very cute!!!! picked the keepers yet??? also i've found that it is much easier to use scisors when cutting worms than a knife.......:)

man i missed so much!!!! it'll take forever to catch up!!!:eek:

[drache]

beautiful healthy babies

and I know what you mean, Shanley