At this moment (6:05 p.m., Sunday, 10 August), a total of 30 babies are out of their eggs: 19 from the 1st clutch, 7 from the 2nd, and 4 from the 3rd. At least 5 more in the 3rd clutch have pipped but not yet crawled out.
Today, I fed the 19 first clutch babies for the 1st time. Fourteen of them ate, but the other 5 did not. We got quite lucky with the anerythristic babies, getting 9 out of the 19. The expected number is a quarter of the total, which would be about 5. Seven of these 9 anerythristic babies ate, 5 males and 2 females. The other 2 anerythristics did not eat. One is male and the other is female. From this clutch we hope to keep a trio (1 male and 2 females) of anerythristics, since they are all heterozygous for amelanism (because their father is amelanistic). This means that, when we are able to breed them, about a quarter of their babies should be snows (amelanistic and anerythristic), and the rest will be anerythristics.
We went down to Rosh Pinna this morning to pick up a young boa that we will be taking care of until his owner, Shaked, returns from New York (probably about a year). Shaked's mother and brother had been taking care of the snake, whose name is "Jin", but neither of them really liked him, and Shaked wanted someone who will be able to take better care of him.
So, the total number of snakes in our house at this moment is 77, two of which are actually not ours. Besides Jin, there are 15 adults, 3 that are 2 years old, 28 that are 1 year old, and 30 babies.
Like the title says, a lot of statistics! :-)
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