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Nice female corn !

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Adam, your female is stunning. What a handsome breeding pair you have! How are the babies? I hope the parents are proud lol!!!

Jen, your puppy is SOOO cute!! Those big eyes... he’d get away with murder with that expression on his face I’m sure!

Jessica

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Adam, your female is stunning. What a handsome breeding pair you have! How are the babies? I hope the parents are proud lol!!!

Jen, your puppy is SOOO cute!! Those big eyes... she’d get away with murder with that expression on her face I’m sure!

Jessica

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Yeah that’s quite a lot of animals you have there! I think a parrot would be great. I think having a bird of prey would be fantastic too - my husband and I had a go at falconry in Scotland last year and it was fantastic! - we took a Harris hawk for a walk and met the other birds the falconer keeps, including this European eagle owl - had to show you this picture because the bird was so fantastic although my hair is a mess because it was raining! lol.

What kind of horses do you have?

Off to drill a hole in the new viv for the heater! Speak later,

Jessica

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LOL, once again... take a guess... yep that’s right... late as usual !!!

Anyway, Adam your female is stunning, I know you got her in Feb 04 but how old is she. Very nice. Have to admit, I would have said a reverse okeetee if you hadn’t told Jen already.

Jen, your puppy is sooooo adorable. Not much else I can say that no one else already has.

Jessica, I’ve been to 2 Falconry’s in Scotland, also one in England near Salisbury (can’t remember the exact name). I got some pics taken there, it was a fantastic day !!!
Loved every minute of it... Got to hold some Birds of Prey as well (With the big annoying leather gloves lol). What was the one in Scotland you went to?

C ya

- Shaun

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Hi Shaun,

The falconer lives in Kinlochewe in Wester Ross, near Loch Torridon. He and his wife own a bed and breakfast there, and when we went which was last November, all the birds were tied to perches on the front lawn - amazing! He had a golden eagle too, the first time I’d ever seen one, and a snowy owl, which was absolutely gorgeous. Birds of prey are a lot of work though - snakes are much easier! This European eagle owl was called Gudrun and she let me stroke her feathers. They were so soft!

I’m a bit annoyed/upset because we just attached the heater to the wall of the new viv, but when we were trying to staple the heater sensor to the ceiling of the viv (the way we’ve done for the other two), the staple gun decided to stop working properly and pierced the sensor cord, and now the heater doesn’t work (well at least I don’t know if it worked before, but it certainly doesn’t now!). So we’ll have to buy a new one, AND a new staple gun. The expense never ends with snakes! Still, at least all our little friends are ok. That’s the main thing. I took Henri out of the tank in her lay box and put her in the sitting room while the drilling was being done, and she came out eventually (she probably got cold even though I had a fan heater on in there - bl**dy June and it’s still 14 degrees!), so I’ve removed and disinfected the lay box and filled it with damp wood chips as a humid hide because she’s going to shed soon. She had a drink too and we’ll feed her tonight. Adam, how long do you think we should feed fuzzies for? When should we build up to bigger prey? She’s so thin...

Speak to you later,

Jessica

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Hi Jessica,

I can’t say I’ve been to the Falconer in Kinlochewe (He sounds very good and experienced), but I have been to Loch Torridon a few times with my cousins and Papa (Although my favourite is either "Loch Long" or "The Smiddy"). Beautiful place, very scenic.
Sounds like a very good day out, might go one day.

Sorry to hear about the staple gun incident. I would be very annoyed as well, presuming it happened to me. Take it you have bought a wooden viv (since you need to attach the heater to the wall of the enclosure, I had to do that before I got a glass one), I prefer wooden ones, not exactly sure why, just think they look better. What would make me even more annoyed/angry, is if the heater was brand new. As you said, the main thing is that everyone is alright, on that subject how is Henri and the eggs.


JUNE, JUNE, JUNE !!!!!!!! No way. This was supposed to be a hot summer this year, according to predictors. One of the coldest in ages, I don’t think it could get much worse if it tried.

- Speak to you soon

- Shaun

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Yeah, I know. One hot day so far, or two at a push. We’ve had some reasonable weather, well what would be reasonable for April anyway, but that’s it really. Mind you as I’ve mentioned before I find it unbearable when it’s hot in the south east because it’s just so humid at the same time. That’s what makes our weather so crap in the UK, the humidity and the fact that it’s overcast so much of the time - as it doesn’t actually rain as much in London as it does in Rome, for instance - but it makes it feel colder in winter and warmer in summer. When the heat is dry like in Spain it’s so much more bearable than 30 degrees and 80% humidity uurgghh! Remember that very hot day 2 years ago in August when it got up to 38 (100) at Heathrow? That was unbearable!

Yes, the viv is wooden. Luckily I have this week off work (apart from a one day course on Friday) so I’ll go and change the heater - but yes I was pretty annoyed! But it can’t be helped. Henri is fine thanks, becoming more herself if thin. She’s very opaque and lethargic but has just eaten two fuzzies again and I hope will be her old self after shedding. Gerald’s not getting his hands(?) on her again though - we don’t want another ten eggs this year!

Jessica

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Yep I hate it when it’s all hot ’n sticky, lol. Ruins the good weather all over the UK when it’s like that (not that we see much of that here in Scotland). Yeah I remember (I think) the weather got outragious one day in heathrow couple of years back. Just like being abroad, lol, without the Sun, Sand, Sea of course. Yep Think everyone would like to swap weather with Spain, 10 times better when it’s not humid.

Lucky you !!! Nearly a whole week off. You could try hide the visible damage and see if the shop would replace or refund you, Hope they do. Glad Henri’s getting within herself again, Very glad she’s eating. I’ve heard of many snakes losing their appetite completely after becoming gravid all the way through even up to months after the birth.

Feel sorry for Gerald, lol. Boys will be boys. LoL !!!

Anyway, Speak to you soon

- Shaun

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Hi Adam,

She looks almost like a sunglow to me, if the white patches were missing. Anyway she’s beautiful! The eggs are good thanks - at least I didn’t look at them yesterday apart from through the little plastic window, as I didn’t want to disturb the temperatures again. I’ll look at them later. And my female is eating ok. She’s never had a problem in that department - in fact I find in general corns as less fussy eaters than trinkets. Our trinket snakes eat well as a rule, but can be picky when they’re not in the mood for some reason, whereas Gerald and Henrietta have never refused a mouse, ever, since we got them!

Shaun, yeah I thought about not saying what happened to the heater, but the holes are quite visible and we know the people in the reptile shop pretty well by this stage which puts me off lying! Maybe they’ll give me a discount on a new heater if I come out with it... or maybe not.

Yeah, boys will be boys! I feel sorry for Gerald too. If there were any contraceptive injection I could give Henri so I could put them back together and let them enjoy themselves, I would! But I don’t think we need any more eggs in a couple of months - especially as, as it is, I don’t quite know how we’re going to organise looking after the ones we have when we go to the States for two weeks in September! One of my friends feeds them while we’re away, with her two daughters who are 13 and 10 and love the snakes, but this time by September we may have 17 snakes which is getting beyond a joke! Unless I’ve managed to ship any by then, but it depends how quickly they settle down. They should hatch late July, so we’ll see. Mind you I think sometimes mating is a bit one sided in snakes. I’m sure she enjoyed it originally, but not when she’s feeling weak and horrible, and there’s no reasoning with a male snake!!

Jen, how is Nikita today, and the eggs!

Jessica

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Hey all,

I am very inexperienced on this topic, but I would say yes. In my opinion, she has been through a lot lately, and I think she needs the food to regain her strength and confidence. After laying all of those eggs, she must be on the bare foundations, you need to build her up again (excuse the phrase, couldn’t think of a suitable word, lol)

Anyway, Just read the posts up until now, and yep, shame you can’t get contraceptives for snakes or give them the pill, lol.

Anyway, how are the eggs doing?

Speak to you soon.

- Shaun

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Ah thank you Shaun, was feeling a bit silly as I advised Jen to take Nikita to the vet and then it seems I was being over the top. I suppose I just get a bit freaked out by how unwell she seemed to have been pre lay and the fact that Jen was going to take her to the vet and then found eggs. Always get annoyed with myself when it seems there’s something I missed in my snake reading... well you cheered me up thanks!! Glad the picture thing seems to be sorted and can’t wait to see Titan!!

Also feel I should have put vermiculite AND perlite in the incubator, as Jen and Adam did, and it’s too late now unless I move them again, which I don’t really want to. Another thing I never read. The books I’ve read seem to say any substrate - moss, vermiculite, perlite is ok - not a mixture. Aarggghh... well yes the eggs look ok thanks! Cooking you a beautiful little hatchling.

Glad you’ve got a day off. Yes, pills for snakes, great idea, or even better, injection lasting 12 weeks like for humans! But it’s not to be.

Speak later and thanks for cheering me up,

Jessica

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LOL, no problem !!!

I finf that it is hard to beleive that the vet trip was canceled by laying too. That is lucky.

As for the substrate, again I am unhelpful and useless on the whole ’breeding’ topic, but I would not thinl it matters much if you have read that vermiculite is acceptable and not a mixure. Remember, in the wild, corns lay in very poor conditions without all the monitoring, spraying, etc etc. 9 out of 10 of these corns are healthy and live a long life. Not sure if that helps, but anyway...


Speak tomorrow

- Shaun