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    Dekayi BABIES!

    Ok if you read my "BABY" post you know what happened. The strange thing is it was a full day from the first baby til the rest. Oh well the final count is 17 healthy little Dekayi babies...YIKES!

    And 1 more...now how am I gonna feed these little monsters???????

    Jerry

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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    I've been using cut-up nightcrawler segments (one individual segment) and baby slugs.
    0.1 Storeria dekayi
    Hoping to get some T. s. sirtalis High-Reds next summer!


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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    You need not to feed them, if you send them all to me right now
    Or you can try to get and breed "Enchytraeus albidus".
    Allready waiting for the sommer
    best wishes bis bald Udo
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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    Jerry, when Xena had her babies, I had to go out in the yard every day around 6:30 AM and forage for slugs that were all of 1-3 MM in size.

    Early evenings also worked, and at night with a flashlight.

    If you have a lawn of any size, place some square pices of plywood on the ground in shady damp areas, in a few days, there will be slugs up under them.

    Alternately Dorothy and I would go out back to the woods, and start rolling over chunks of tree limbs and debris on the ground finding worms that were as big around as a pencil lead, and cut them into thirds.

    Night crawler chunks are too big.

    These babies will feed as often as you can provide the food, I often fed mine twice a day

    Dekai neonates have a much faster metabolism that Garter babies. The good news is they will be so much bigger in a couple of months.

    Last winter I set up a slug farm in the basement to keep the food available.

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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    Congrats, Jerry! They're adorable.
    Slugs are their favourite, but the tiny worms Wayne was mentioning will also work well.
    Best wishes for the feeding!!
    Anji

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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    Well my large Dekay gave birth today while I was out getting my classroom ready for the kids. 18 stillborn, 5 healthy. Maybe that's why she has been so lethargic for the last couple of weeks. I guess it's okay...I can't imagine trying to feed 23 new ones on top of the 17 born yesterday.
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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    wow, Jerry
    congrats - they're so lovely with their little dark heads
    you'll have your hands full with them
    rhea
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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    congratulations!

    Nightcrawler pieces are too big... unless you slice them vertically

    I have 4 new baby redbellied snakes, hard to tell but I think two are silver with a brown stripe (the rare color) and 2 are reddish brown. I am going to be feeding them tomorrow.

    What if I were to take a large slug and cut it up? does that work? or scent worm pieces with a slug? thre are no baby slugs here... just huge ones that are far too big for even most of my garters to tackle!
    Mother of many snakes and a beautiful baby girl! I am also a polymer clay artist!


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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    somebody once told me he'd gotten a w/c adult to eat the "can-o-slugs" stuff
    it would seem that that would be a lot less messy to cut up
    and then one could perhaps mist it a bit, to bring out the flavour?
    rhea
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    Re: Dekayi BABIES!

    Shannon- Sit the slug in a bowl and use a single edge razor blade, safer yet a window scraper with the blade mounted.

    I have chopped up slugs before, it works

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