Forum: Breeding

I'm new to garters, but have an unexpected litter from a WC female on my hands at the moment. I dealt with them the same way I would other...

Hey everyone I'm new to the forum and have been keeping garter snakes ever Since I was a kid. Now I am curious about two things first of all how can...

I caught two of my eastern garters making some serpent-love yesterday.:eek: :) If it was successful (which I'm not sure about), will the babies...

The eastern female garter I rescued from my friend's yard about two months ago delivered today! I was wondering if she was pregnant...I guess I can...

They are all eating like little piggies! I ended up keeping 14, the kinked baby didn't make it though. I love them all, they are so cute and almost...

I am currently keeping three wild caught eastern garter snakes in the same aquarium; two males and a female. I keep the aquarium on my enclosed...

Do wild garters give birth? My wc female went through a shed, and is gaining weight even though she hasn't eaten for me yet. It seems late in the...

I rescued a wandering garter from my local town park...had her for three weeks, and she just had seven neonates. They've all shed, are very active...

This pair produced babies about a month ago and now they're getting started for next year:

Well today i have found out the baby i have is a boy all the others i think are girls. When do snakes breed and how old do they have to be to even...

One of my rescues decided to pop today, 11 healthy little rascals, 1 stillborn, and 1 jellybean. Hopefully they will all be eating and off to new...

I captured a garter snake in my garden. By its tail i guessed that it was female. Apparently i was right because she gave birth today! I had now idea...

Our girl Sky just shed her skin :rolleyes: ... she's about 3foot and hovering around 250g .... I'm thinking of moving her into a baby-proof box at...

One of my rescue radixes wanted fed during delivery. I never had that happen before. She was actively in a feeding response. Anyone else have this...

Here are a few photos from today. My daughter Gabby was right there to catch the little scrubs and get them out of their birth sack. It was cool to...

She's absolutely massive. She can barely move. She reminds of James's Bertha. I'll get pics in a minute; she's gonna go into labor VERY soon.

Woohoo! 15 perfect young parietalis, no slugs, no dead young. All seem te be perfect! These guys are from low red parents. I've seen mommy...

A few weeks ago I rescued a gravid female Eastern Garter from being chopped up by our neighbors. She had a slight infection which I rectified by...

That's right, our marcianus dropped 6 cute little Canadian captive bred babies yesterday. I'm pretty excited it's my first time breeding Thamnophis....

It looks like my preemy radix(as I call it) is about to die. She was the last one delivered. The two other deaths that occured yesterday morning were...