Hatching Black Racers??????

[Mom2Four]

Here are the pictures of the snake from the egg that was beginning to decay.. Bless his heart..









Still 18 eggs though, and they all look good..

[Mom2Four]

Found this skin in a tree in my yard yesterday. Appears to be from a black rat snake, I did not have the entire skin as part of it was out of my reach, but I had pretty much all of it, and scrunched up and everything it was 44 inches.. I hope he/she stays around and enjoys life in my tree.

[Mom2Four]

I found this poor fellar this morning when I went to get the paper, he was right beside my driveway, someone had went out of their way to hit him, from the looks of the spin out tire marks on the road and on his back end. Juvenile Black Rat Snake.. Very pretty fellar.. Sad that he was done so cruelly

[guidofatherof5]

Sorry to hear about the losses.

[Mom2Four]

Thanks, still have 18 eggs though, so praying they all come out all right, all of them are fat and healthy looking. It is strange but they have actually gotten a LOT bigger in the 2 months we have had them. I didn't realize that snake eggs did that, we have chickens and their eggs don't grow. LoL

I was reading up on black racers last night on the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency page, and according to it, eggs laid in June hatch in August OR September, depending on weather conditions. I am guessing we are looking at another week or so because for the south we have had a really mild, cool, summer. (yes 85f with 70% humidity is mild and cool. LoL) Making up for it now though.
I have been letting the eggs incubate outside basically just like we found them, only in a rubbermaid box. So my guess is the weather has affected them.

[jitami]

So sorry that you lost the first two... and the youngster by the driveway Will keep everything crossed that the other 18 hatch out healthy and happy

[Mom2Four]

Ok, well here one comes anyway.. I have slits in an egg and one poking his nose out every now and again.. YAY GO SNAKES..

Here's the picture

[guidofatherof5]

That is so cool. Keep the pictures coming.

[Snakers]

um ive never seen you on this forum but hello may i ask what kind they are for what i can see the one looks cute with his little eye

[Mom2Four]

um ive never seen you on this forum but hello may i ask what kind they are for what i can see the one looks cute with his little eye

Black racer eggs. My neighbor hates snakes, when he found this one hanging out of his rock wall a couple of months ago he was not happy. My hubby removed her, and before we released her down the road we noticed her cloaca was open, so we lifted some rocks off his wall and well there were 22 fresh laid eggs. I took them in, and have been incubating them so my kiddos could have that once in a lifetime opportunity to see snake eggs hatch. For the whole story you can look under my profile and look at my other 2 or 3 threads. I have lots of pics of eggs, and mama and all that in those.

He is adorable.. another pic is soon to follow, he is still in egg, but poking out more now..