I admit to mainly being a ball man, but four years ago I broke down and bought a few boas to mess around with. For one of my projects I hunted down for some of the best Sunglows available and found some nice Coral Sunglows and hets. I raised them nice and slow four the last four years, and this fall I paired a nice lean Khal Coral Sunglow male to a Salmon het coral albino female weighing 12.5 lbs. Reading balls are a piece of cake but reading boas through the breeding season was nerve wracking. The male courted the female on and off but I witnessed no visible copulation. Doing my homework I observed and I marked a pre-ovulation swell, two distinct separate ovulations, and a Post Ovulation Shed marking the birth for the end of May to beginning of June. Hoping that she wasn't full of slugs I purchased a fetal doppler monitor and recorded some heartbeats of the developing babies In early May. On Tuesday afternoon she dropped her pre-waxy birth stool and last nights torrential downpour made her restless and she tore up the newspaper. I went in for dinner assuming that she will birth early during the morning, but as I checked on her before going to bed there was a big pile of gooey babies staring at me. My first boa breeding project was a success and a boa virgin I am no longer. We hit a great ratio of Coral Sunglows possible supers in this 22 baby clutch with one slug. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Next year the leopards will be five years old and its their first turn.

The moment of discovery
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow.jpg?t=1275620285

The goo shot
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow2.jpg?t=1275620374

The goo shot 2
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow3.jpg?t=1275620424

all cleaned up
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow4.jpg?t=1275620472

A nice big Coral Sunglow Possible Super
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow5.jpg?t=1275620472

A nice clean Salmon Possible Super
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/2010-sunglow6.jpg?t=1275620472

Sweet babies

Dude those are superclean! Love the colors on the one on the bottom right in the second picture. Can't wait to see all of them de-gooed and shed :D

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Way to go, very nice. Not bad for a beginner. lol

Wow congrats on the sweet litter. That one that is stretched out with the tail stripe is smokin hot!!!! :yes:

Wow! there nice and clean patterned. Congrats!

Congrats :cheers:

Congrats on the beautiful litter of boas.....

:cheers:





I admit to mainly being a ball man....

:eek:

Sweet baby boas! I to love the one in the bottom right of the goo pics. Killer little boa. Congrats man.

HUGE congratulations!!! Great litter there! That salmon is gorgeous..

Those sunglows are badass! Never seen a boa so bright.

Nice........when are you letting go some sunglows? Pm me with details.

Wow congrats on the sweet litter. That one that is stretched out with the tail stripe is smokin hot!!!! :yes:

That's the one I noticed first, too! Congrats on all the nice fat babies!

Those are soooooo sweet!!!! Congrats on the litter.:cheers:

That's a sweet litter! Congrats!

Sweet litter I think we need some update pics. 22 babies is pretty awesome for a first time momma.

so the 4 years waiting was well worth it i guess. 22 big chubby babies and just 1 slug from a virgin mommy. way to go man!!!

big congrats!

plus boa breeding should be a lot harder than ballpython breeding, so extra congrats on that...lol

I'm not really a boa person but WOW.

Those sunglows are gorgeous. This ol tax return of mine needs to come faster so I can burn some on a few display animals.

Congrats on the litter! More pics after they're less gooey.

REALLY nice litter, congratulations!:cheers:

A little late in the reply, but congrats on a nice clutch.

It is indeed very nice.

Dan

Good job, they look great.

gooey goodness!!!!, congrats:yessir:, that must be quite the site in person:wamma:

Congratulations! That is a great litter for a first time female. Now that you have some possible super sunglow females you will need to pick up some male morphs to make other combos. There are a lot of new morphs and combos that will start to become available over the next couple years to help feed the addiction. :yes:

Continue to keep good records like you did and it will become easier and easier each season. Before you know it your biggest problem will be figuring out where to put all the boa cages.

Steve Ihrig - sdi

Thanks everyone!!! I never did post some baby pics so I'll share some from the archives. Have a great breeding season.

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/10-sunglow-female-web.jpg?t=1303427093

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/10_coral_sunglow_male_web.jpg?t=1303427093

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/ab_10sgm16-04.jpg?t=1303427093

http:///i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/10-coral-albino-female-web.jpg?t=1303427093

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/bpaddict/10-double-het--sunglow-web.jpg?t=1303427093

Those babies are just insane.

congrats beautiful babies