PICTURES- Hypo Checkereds!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Guys, I had NO idea my female albino checkered was gravid. NONE! Matter of fact, when I brumated my snakes this year I did not even attempt to pair her other than putting her in with my hypo male (who is also the father to a clutch that I am still expecting)for ONE night. She has remained fit and trim the whole season and today I discovered while on poop patrol that I had a surprise clutch of babies. It's a small clutch, and two of the albinos went into the freezer because they were severely kinked.... these were the first kinked babies I have ever had! There was also a stillborn albino and I have one normal baby that is a runt, stumpy and with an undersized head. We will see about him... But the good news is that I have One healthy normal, Two healthy albinos (meaning that my male hypo is surprise het for albino) FOUR healthy extremely bright hypo's and one hypo albino. One of the kinked babies was also a hybino...

BUT all in all this is a fantastic surprise and the little ones are just stunning. The hypos are SO much brighter than my male was as a baby that I am wondering now if my female albino isn't contributing something as well. I will have to examine her more closely, the only reason I have her is because she has much more yellow/orange areas than most of the albino checkereds... and I noticed a similar effect between the hybino and his normal albino siblings.

Now I am just so anxious to see what is going to come out of Marcy! She is already so bright and green herself, I can only imagine that her babies in hypo form are going to be phenomenal. My male is only an 09 and I am surprised that he was able to get the job done so well!

Here are the babies!

Here is the darkest headed hypo with his normal sister... look at the difference!


here are the four hypo's


This little girl... I am keeping!!



Here's a normal albino


And here's the Hybino! It is a male, so I will also be keeping him. It's almost impossible to tell in pictures, but take them outside and it is clear as day. This is like taking the contrast on an albino up an extra notch, he is much more orange than the other two, and of course he has the same weird head patterning and labial markings that they all have!



And for fun, here are labial comparisons... the top two are normal (notice the uniform labial markings) and the bottom two are hypo's...I know the picture didn't come out quite so well, but you can recognize all of the same features on the labials if you have a good eye for detail.










I also sexed everyone and here is what I came up with:

2.2 hypos
0.2 albinos
1.0 hybino
0.1 normal

I am keeping a female hypo and the male hybino, meaning that once they are ready and feeding, I will have available 2 hypo males, 1 hypo female, 2 albino females and 1 normal female. Anything that is not albino, is 100% het for it. Hypo is a dominant trait, breeding a hypo to a totally normal snake will result in hypos and normals right off the bat. I had great odds here! And to think I wasn't even expecting these....