orange babies

[ssssnakeluvr]

my orange eaastern popped today....3 nice healthy babies, 3 slugs, 3 dead, 2 alive, but way deformed..one had a kink in his neck and had to be put down, the other is not kinked as bad, might make it, but will never breed. I will get some pics up later.

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations. :) Sorry to hear about the deformed and dead ones.

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's the deformed babies.....

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF1024.jpg

this little baby had to be put down....neck was so kinked it couldn't eat....

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF1023-1.jpg

this one was dead....very tiny, Keith said it looked like a baby dinosaur

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF1025.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's the cranky mom....just after giving birth

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF1007-1.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

and the live babies

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF2006.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF2007.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF2021.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF2010.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

Great looking babies. Sorry about the losses.

[drache]

pretty babies
sorry about all the losses
was this her first time?

[count dewclaw]

Congrats. Sorry for all the losses.

[ssssnakeluvr]

yea, this was her first litter

[gregmonsta]

Congrats :D it's a shame about the deformed ones ... ;) hopefully the others will colour up nicely tho.

[jitami]

Sorry about the losses Don. Lovely three, though. Congrats.

[prattypus]

Those kind of percentages are never easy to take- I'm sorry. Good luck with the other 4 though.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

congrats on the healthy ones!!! deformed babies always give me the major willies :(

[Snaky]

Congrats witht he healthy one's. It's always a shame to have deformed one's:(

[ssssnakeluvr]

dang it......one of the babies died. not the gimpy one either. so, have 2 orange babies left, both males, seem to be doing good!!

[Stefan-A]

Sorry to hear that. :(

[Sid]

So sorry to hear that so many didn't make it , Don. Fingers crossed for the other two, they look great.

[TwistidMutations]

Sorry about your loss.But great looking babies

[ssssnakeluvr]

tried to get a couple better pics...little too late in the afternoon...

gimpy

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF4002.jpg

male, more orange

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF4006.jpg

other male, nice stripe down back....

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF4009.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

Thanks for sharing those great pictures. Hope they all do well.

[ssssnakeluvr]

well drat....down to one male orange left...the bottom pic in the last post...he died a couple days ago.... the other male still hasn't eaten....hasn't lost weight yet either...tomorrow will be an experiment to get the little buggar eating!!! he hasn't touched guppies, salmon pieces, tilapia, salmon jello, or worms.... gonna puree some salmon, add water and vitamin powder.... I picked up a couple IV catheters from our vet today....will tube feed him....less stress than shoving a guppy in his mouth... that should get him going!!

forgot to add.... I will be making up a small amount of this salmon puree....but don't want to freeze a big hunk of this stuff whin I need a .1 cc to feed...so, I found some ice cube trays we have, small rounded cubes, hold about 1 cc of water.....will freeze a bunch in these little chunks and save in a container later after frozen (so the wife can have the tray back....)

[drache]

bummer
hope you get something into the little guy

[reptileparadise]

Sorry bout the losses, but the colors on some a great already!

[ssssnakeluvr]

well....he seemed to take the fish puree ok..... here's pics of him...will see how he handles the stress of the feeding.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF6025.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF6024.jpg

[drache]

pretty little guy
I hope he catches on to the food thing soon

[ssssnakeluvr]

the little fella took it good. gonna feed him again tomorrow!

[drache]

great news, Don

[mustang]

i bet the male will be happy to try again

[ssssnakeluvr]

fed him again today, along with gimpy...or Lucky, the scoliosis snake....he is pounding guppies too!!!!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

update....... i put some fish pieces in oranges tank today, he is in with a baby eastern het for snow. after finishing with all the feeding i got the fish puree ready....but didn't need it!! the little boy polished off all the fish pieces on his own!!!! yippeeeeeeeee!!!

[MichaelSmith]

Hi Don - congratulations on the babies and too bad about the dead/deformed. Hopefully the next one will all be healthy. GREAT looking mom!