young parietalis!

[reptileparadise]

yes yes...the time has come!

I have young parietalis!!!
one to be exact...

Okay, the female. She is born in '06. She weighed 86 grams at the end of hibernation and she weighed 151 grams at 3 months of gravidity (? what!?)
I've been feeling to see how many young I might expect. I felt around 10 young. The female doesn't look like she has eaten 9 young, but she doesn't look skinny either.
Shes not moving around like she is still in labour but I'm keeping my hopes up...

Pictures of "the one" have been made and will be added tonight I guess.

[adamanteus]

Fingers crossed that there are more to come, Sjoerd.

[reptileparadise]

You can uncross them James
I found the young at 11 this morning...Its now 4 o clock with no signs of more on their way...
It sucks...
But then again, I must say I have noticed that quite a lot of litters this year are small...Not all, but defenitly more then last year
Sorry for the crappy pics. Will get beter ones with time...
As you can see, its blushing nicely. I don't think this one will become very red. Bright red, yes but she (i hope) has a lot of black...

[Sid]

Sorry to hear that you only got one, but the one is gorgeous

[anji1971]

That baby is really pretty!
Sorry there weren't more for you...........

[ssssnakeluvr]

sorry there was only one....she will get redder as she gets older..mine has...she started out with no red and is getting redder!

[reptileparadise]

Thanks guys!

Yes Don, I know. She will get redder, but it looks like she'll keep a lot of black. On the other hand, the 'orange' will soon be on fire!

[drache]

sorry about your small litter
that baby is really lovely though

[jeanette]

That baby is beautiful, shame you only got one in the expected littler but ive a feeling shes going to be a special one

[reptileparadise]

Not any more
The same female gave birth to 3 more live young. 5 dead and 1 underdeveloped egg.
I knew I felt around ten young

Í might just be used to strange garters...But isn;t it a bit odd that she gave birth to them over 2 days? Could it have something to do with the number of dead young she was carrying?