Babies

[chloe]

My first babies of this year were born today. 16 baby T Radix.

I will post some pictures soon.

[Cazador]

Wow Chloe! Congratulations. When did you take them out of brumation?

Rick

[Snaky]

Congratulations! Looking forward to the pictures :)

[chloe]

Thanks, I took them out of brumation 2nd week in January.

[adamanteus]

Congratulations Chloe! If you have surplus babies I might well be interested in buying a few. I'd like to see pictures.

[Cazador]

They must have bred right away then. Hopefully you got some nice pictures, because I'm sure it's only a matter of time until "mating" is the topic for the photo contest :). Cheers,
Rick

[Gijs & Sabine]

Congratulations, Chloe:)
Are these the first babies from your radix ? And can you post pics from the parents as well ? (I'm a radix lover:D ) Our big radix female is also gravid and last year she gave birth to 55 babies !!!

[adamanteus]

I too have had large numbers of babies from T.radix (haydeni) in the past, somewhere in the 30s if I remember rightly. They're one of my favourite Garter species. I will get them again, if not this year, certainly next year.

Does anyone know if any other Garter species produce this many young? I have never seen so many from another species.

[GarterGuy]

Congats on the little ones! Can't wait to see the pics.:D
Roy

[Cazador]

James,
I've seen reports of up to 80 babies being born. I think it was by T.s. parietalis, but I'll have to dig a little just to make sure. Rossman et al. covers it.

[chloe]

heres one picture sorry its not that clear
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/hovis07_021.jpg

[chloe]

I just checked my records and the parents were put together on the 27th January and started mating straight away (pic below). The babies were born on the 26th April, so exactly 90 days. The babies are all a good size.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/snakes07_0051.jpg

[chloe]

this ones a bit better, i will try and get some better pictures tomorrow

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/hovis07_018.jpg

[adamanteus]

When will you first feed them Chloe? Let us know how you get on. Save the best feeders for me!

[GarterGuy]

Awwwww cute little buggars! Can't wait 'til I have some baby serpents of my own!:p

[Cazador]

The golden yellow color of their stripes shows up very well even on the fuzzy pictures. They're going to be beautiful when they grow up!

Rick

[Gijs & Sabine]

very nice !! Like Rick already said, they're going to be beatifull:)

[Thamnophis]

Very nice.

From T. radix a litter of 92 snakes is recorded. Do not know where I found that on this moment. But I have placed it on my site and that means that it was a trusted item.
Must have been in one of these:

Strumpfbandnattern - Hallmen & Chlebowy (http://www.kousebandslangen.nl/hallmen_chlebowy.htm)
The Garter Snakes - Rossman e.a. (http://www.kousebandslangen.nl/rossman.htm)
Strumpfbandnattern - Thomas Bourguignon (http://www.kousebandslangen.nl/bourguignon.htm)
Die Strumpfbandnattern - Frank Mutschmann (http://www.kousebandslangen.nl/mutschmann.htm)

[Snaky]

A very nice bunch! Hopefully everything goes very well with raising them :)

[drache]

Congratulations
beautiful babies