Baby talk

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I have been fortunate to watch MANY garters give birth. It is AWESOME to see. There's nothing I hate more though than when one comes out and is fully developed, but it never "wakes up". I give them a minute from the time they come out to start moving. if one doesn't, I pick it up and gently rub it with a warm damp cloth to help break the sac and usually this stimulates the little guy to come to life. Doesn't always work though. I hate to see a stillborn

in august, was actually doing an educational thing at my house for some children that were homeschooled, they were getting a tour of my snakeroom when I suddenly realized that a mama snake was giving birth!!! So they got to watch it! It was so awesome!

[ssssnakeluvr]

i have a question why do pugets and red-spotteds have like 7-10 where as easterns have much higher>

some of the western species have much larger babies, hence the smaller number. my red spots were close to 8 inches long when born where most easterns are around 5 inches.