The Snake Keeper Blog

Things are really starting to move along here now. Going to be hard to keep up with it all. We were away last week on vacation; yes we were at the beach again. We just love going there. Any ways we are back now and trying to catch up with everything. We hatched out some cool things during the last week. We hatched out some killer cinnamons. I am sure there are others who have some nice ones as well but these have some outstanding color on the sides. We were real impressed with them. So we have a couple to put on the shelf and a few to sell.

Pewter

Next we hatched out a few pewter’s. Well four to be exact. Great odds on that clutch 4 pewter’s, 2 pastels. So we pulled out some great odds there. It seems the odds were with us on that day as the Mojave to Mojave clutch began to hatch as well. 2 Super Mojave’s (Blue Eyed Whites) and 4 Mojave’s.

A very nice cinnamon.

So two clutches and no normals. Can you see my smile? Well that makes up for some of the others where we got more normals than morphs. But hey that’s the way it goes in this business. You just take what you get and be happy.

One of the cool stripe’s that just hatched.

That’s all for now. Have to go unload a truck of shavings. 200 bails for the rodents.

Been away this week and came home and started going through the incubator. Well we cut open a few clutches as well. Just to let you know what is hatching we have Pastel X Cinnamons, Genetic stripes, Mojave X Mojave. The Supers that we produced a wek or so ago shed and I will have to get some pics of that up as well. So I should have some result shot up of what is crawling out in the next 24 hours. Let me just say, It’s nice! Also be looking for the clutch results page coming on line soon. Have a great weekend.

Ringer stripe

Another pic of the ringer stripe.

Just thought this was a cool looking genetic stripe you would like to see. It is a female and Colette is keeping it. We have a clutch with four stripes in it. Two females and one male are out so far. Waiting for the last one. At least one male is available.

These past few days have been really fun here. Clutches have started hatching and you get a rush every time you get to look into another clutch of eggs. Still waiting for the webmaster to get back to get me a page going for all this but until then here is what is happening. Clutch 7 we got three spiders that are not all out yet. Clutch 8 het ivories still waiting to see what crawls out. Clutch 9 is pastels and Super Pastels. We have 2 supers are hatching and they look great. Clutch 10 is Cinnamons I think we have three in there and then this beauty.

First clown of the season. What a head pattern!!!

This was clown to possible het clown and we won on this female. Hopefully we win some more possible hets as the year goes on. Check out the head on this clown. I hope it is a male as I know we have several people wanting them. Just so you know Colette is picking hers first. She let me know that this morning. Any ways just waiting for more to hatch to make more room in the incubator for more eggs. Ordered more cages from Freedom Breeder this past week. Made their day, 7 more racks coming with more on order. So I will be busy setting them all up for Colette over the next several days. How about this spider,

Aliens

I was kicking it the other night after getting out of the pool and this spider come up to me on the patio. That got me up in a hurry. We call these aliens here as they look like something off a scary movie. You do not want to be walking in the dark with out your shoes on. That’s all for now. Soon as we get more snakes out of the egg we will take some more pics.

There has been so much going on this last week I do not even know where to begin. I guess I should start off with our landscaping.

Finally a nice yard.

It is now complete and it looks stunning. We are very pleased with the way it all turned out

. It is like a park out in our own yard now. The pool seems to fit in much better now that we have some green around it. Yesterday I spent the day in Hollywood with my sons class on a field trip.

The Wax Museum

So I took some pics of what we saw down there. It was opening night for Batman. So we saw all the hoopla going on for the pre screening of that flick.

Other than that we have just been busier than ever with the snakes. Every morning it is putting eggs in the incubator it seems. I thought we were prepared for this season but I was wrong. Not enough vermiculite, not enough shelves not enough baby cages not enough time.

13 eggs you got to love that!

We just added more shelves to the incubator yesterday 12’ of them and now they are filled. Remember when I was excited about getting 5 clutches in one day? Well yesterday we got SEVEN clutches. I doubt we will break that record any time soon, I really do not want to as it takes so much to take care of them. Colette records everything about every egg so it is a long process to get them to the incubator. It is about to get real exciting here as these all start to hatch out. Already some cool things are piping and I can not wait to show it all to you. I think you will like it. Some things in there I can not wait to get out of the egg because I want to see what it is. The ball cam is just not going to be working to good this season. If you have the plug in from last year you could view it but if you do not we can not even find it anywhere so you could use it. Seems the company went out of business and we can not find any as nice as what we had. If you know of something that would work please let me know.