And we're off!

[reptileparadise]

2011 had a bit of a gentle start for us this year... I found a small litter of 14 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis this morning :)
I was expecting a bit more from this lady since she had 32 perfect young last year....

All seem healthy so I'm a happy man!
First mating attemps where on 23-01-2011 and she refused food since 12-04-2011. Gestation was 87 days counting from the first mating attemps...

They surprise me every year... Sooooooooooo tiny!
:o>)

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/parietalis200420113.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/parietalis200420111.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/parietalis200420112.jpg

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Cute little ones.

[guidofatherof5]

Great looking little scrubs. Congrats.

[charles parenteau]

Congratulation!!

[zirliz]

Awww cute :)

[drache]

very pretty - congrats, Sjoerd

[reptileparadise]

Thanks guys!
I'm hoping more will follow soon!

[RicMartin]

Congrats!

[BUSHSNAKE]

Awesome i love parietalis...14 still isnt bad

[reptileparadise]

Cheers :)

I think I got spoiled in the last few years with all parietalis litters between 32 and 58 young....

[guidofatherof5]

58, that's awesome.

[reptileparadise]

It sure is! I was blown away when I looked at the enclosure and saw this many young crawling about!

[zirliz]

58! that's a lot I think I'd panic if I had that many young to look after

[Stefan-A]

58 young times the 7 months it took me to sell one garter baby divided by the number of months in a year, equals... 34 years.

And that's why I'm not jumping into garter breeding with both feet.

[drache]

babies are a bit of work . . .

[reptileparadise]

58 is quite a bit of work ;) But I loooooove doing it!

@Stefan; Good thing its a bit easier to sell them around here. I believe all but the holdbacks found a home within 4 months....

[reptileparadise]

14 more from last monday, high reds this time. Its amazing to see this much difference at birth!
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/highred.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

Great looking little scrub.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I caught a huge eastern garter some years back that had 82 babies it was amazing she was around 37" and the babies were around 4" to 5" only one didn't make it because he was born deformed the rest were super healthy. I kept them for about 1 month and then i adopted them out as pets. I put 1 snake at a time in delicups and made sure each one ate and the ones that didn't went in a container so i could try again the next day you talking about a lot of work.

[reptileparadise]

Wow...82 is a lot!!! A litter like that is always welcome around here ;)

More where born... T.s. infernalis and T. radix!
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/Thamnophissirtalisinfernalis30042011.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s285/reptile-paradise/thamnophisradixoranje03052011-1.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

Congrats. Both snakes look awesome.
Tend to favor the radix more for some reason:D
Thanks for posting.

[kibakiba]

That second picture is so adorable! The little faces make my heart melt! :D

[Spankenstyne]

Wow congrats great looking babies, all of 'em!

[ConcinusMan]

58, that's awesome.

Still trying to figure out where that number came from.:confused: I saw 14 parietalis' announced. Oh wait. I get it. Nevermind.

Yeah, I had 52 or so to deal with last year. That's quite a lot of work to care for!