Snakes Hatching!

Foyerhawk · 09-22-2009, 08:54 AM

Our eggs didn't live, but we got a clutch off a friend about a week ago and they are hatching today!

DJsMom · 09-22-2009, 09:09 AM

That's so awesome! What a neat thing to watch! How many are there?

LeRoymydog · 09-22-2009, 09:30 AM

That is so amazing!!! You are so lucky to be able to watch things like this.

Inga · 09-22-2009, 09:42 AM

what kind of snakes are they?
I just realized that I had a preconceived notion moment. I was like...FoyerHawk with the Whippet has snakes? Mind you that is not a judgment, just a surprise.

I used to think snakes were gross. A guy I met with the Fox Valley Herpetology club sort of got me over my fear. Well, a little less fear anyway. I do admit that some snakes are really quite lovely. I don't think I will ever own one. I have just learned to never say never.

Foyerhawk · 09-22-2009, 09:44 AM

They are ball pythons. They don't get very big! Good pet and beginner snakes! Not dangerous to anyone.

There are six eggs total

Yup, I love snakes. I'm about as far from prissy as a girl can get.

AmyBeth · 09-22-2009, 09:56 AM

WOW lucky you. Although it seems weird to me cause I'm use to seeing birds come out of the egg

TxRider · 11-21-2009, 11:05 PM

Neat. I'm not much on reptiles these days.

The only snake I ever saw eggs from was a native rough green snake I had down in Houston as a kid.

I used to keep lot of native snakes during the summer as a kid, usually letting them loose for the winter nice and fat. Dad drew the line with moccasins and rattlesnakes though.

I changed a whole lot of people's perspective on snakes, and got a lot of neighborhood moms to handle them. Any time someone found a snake in the neighborhood they usually came and got me to identify it.

Never had an import breed, but kept about every species of native snake in Texas.

Hognose were may favorites. They come in a wide variety of patterns, easy to keep, most harmless snake in the world, easy to feed as they live on toads and quite the actors with the cobras hood act with much hissing and threatening.

And quite convincing death act with tongue splayed out...

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And the only snake I know if that has never tried to bite. They will strike, but close their mouth when they do.

Dakota Spirit · 11-21-2009, 11:57 PM

Very cool, I love seeing all their little heads pop out.
A friend of mine had a Ball Python and they really are nice snakes. He was easy to hold, docile, and just all around cool. I'd love to have one (or more

) of my own someday.

Will you be keeping any of the babies?

yappypappymom · 11-22-2009, 12:30 AM

ACK!!

*shivers*..*shudders*...*scales!!...prefers fur!*

I respectfuly respect your enthusiasm about snakes; however, your joy & delight I simply can not partake in

...a naturlist all the same, in same horrid realization to myself,

, it WAS interesting to see those babies hatch! Talk about GREAT TIMING for picture taking

!

Cracker · 11-22-2009, 08:07 AM

LOL Yappy.

Very cool, Foyerhawk. I've never been much of a reptile fan in the sense of having one myself (feeding them is my problem, not the snake itself) but I have to admit that even baby snakes are CUTE! LOL

sizzledog · 11-22-2009, 08:24 AM

I love pippers.....

PS - Hand over the spider (or bee? Looks too dark to be a bee, but it's hard to tell) and nobody gets hurt.

RedyreRottweilers · 11-22-2009, 08:43 AM

Very cool pix, good luck with the babies.

txrider, we have eastern hognose around here, we used to play with them all the time when I was a kid.

So entertaining.

I remember my dad chasing my mom around the yard with one that was playing dead hung over a hoe handle. That still makes me laugh to think about that.

haha

CoverTune · 11-22-2009, 01:05 PM

So strange... yikes.

wabanafcr · 11-22-2009, 01:10 PM

So Cool!!!

PetPip · 11-22-2009, 11:24 PM

That's awesome.

hulkamaniac · 11-23-2009, 01:44 PM

I am both fascinated and horrified. I share Indiana Jones opinion on snakes I'm afraid, yet seeing pictures of them hatching fascinates me.

pittsabowawa · 11-23-2009, 06:59 PM

they're cute.. congrats on the babies. I think snakes are cool.. unfortunately I could never own one because the thought of feeding a live animal to another animal disgusts me... even though I watch animal planet daily.. go figure

Dakota Spirit · 11-23-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by pittsabowawa

they're cute.. congrats on the babies. I think snakes are cool.. unfortunately I could never own one because the thought of feeding a live animal to another animal disgusts me... even though I watch animal planet daily.. go figure

You don't have to feed live

A lot of snake owners buy frozen mice/rats/etc. for their guys.

Katzyn · 11-27-2009, 12:05 AM

Yup, feeding frozen is much safer for everyone involved, and there are very, very few snakes that cannot be converted to frozen.

So amazingly cute. <33 Baby snakeys. <333

Jen D · 11-29-2009, 06:11 PM

How old do the snakes have to be before they can go to a new home, is it right away?