2010 Butter Motley Clutch

When Devin called to tell me that MJ had laid her eggs, I thought it would be nice to check on my snakes as well knowing that there likely wouldn't be anything happening in there. I was pleasantly mistaken. My butter motley was in the process of laying while I was on the phone. She's now finished and I snapped some pics. Not the best quality, sorry.












There were twelve total so my guess after palpating was fairly accurate. Two of them appear to be slugs, though. I'm leaving them with the rest for the time being just to be sure.

Congrats! That's definitely a nice surprise! Hope you have lots of butter motleys pipping out soon!

Nice video! Don't you just love when they start to get close enough to see the little boogers moving around in them?! It makes them seem more like baby snakes rather than just eggs. LOL

Yeah. After posting that vid on youtube I saw links to a few ball python egg candling videos that started from the beginning to hatching. It was cool.

Estimated hatch date for these guys is July 7th.

Will any be for sale? I love corn snakes. I have four, myself, but I do not know how to sex them. : /

Dagan wrote:

Will any be for sale? I love corn snakes. I have four, myself, but I do not know how to sex them. : /

Absolutely. I plan to sell them for $60 each and discount multiples.

They can be sexed via popping or probing. With corns, popping only seems applicable to babies and young snakes. When they're older, you just can't see anything through popping. I can't, anyway. I'll be checking these soon after they hatch and let you know what I have if you're looking for a particular gender to add to your collection.

Do you know anyone who could sex my snakes via probing? Well, I have two young snakes and two adult snakes. One is enormous. I almost wondered if she were some kind of hybrid, but I guess that's the way they come sometimes. Oops, I'm getting off topic!

Man I'd love to buy a butter corn or two some day. I also liked those amels you posted in another area. Forgive me if I'm not to "up" on my cornsnake morphs. Their genetics confuse me a bit.

Dagan wrote:

Do you know anyone who could sex my snakes via probing? Well, I have two young snakes and two adult snakes. One is enormous. I almost wondered if she were some kind of hybrid, but I guess that's the way they come sometimes. Oops, I'm getting off topic!

Man I'd love to buy a butter corn or two some day. I also liked those amels you posted in another area. Forgive me if I'm not to "up" on my cornsnake morphs. Their genetics confuse me a bit.

Well, I'd be happy to do it for you but you're in Maryville. Pam (PythonPassion) is in Maryville but I'm not sure if/when she's free and she's currently having computer issues so we may not hear from her for a few days.

That's okay. I'm in no hurry at all. Where are you located, then? Do you guys ever get together for a meetup of any kind? Snake chat? Lol.

Dagan wrote:

That's okay. I'm in no hurry at all. Where are you located, then? Do you guys ever get together for a meetup of any kind? Snake chat? Lol.

Powell is just north of Knoxville. It's about a 45-50 minute (?) drive to Maryville from here, I think. The forum is still relatively new so we've never really put together any sort of get together. We sometimes bump into each other at reptile related events, but that's about it for now. We may eventually do something in the future but I don't want to make anyone feel obligated to a group function.

Checked on the eggs earlier and they're dimpling and starting to have some "give" when touched.

I wish I had a happy ending for this clutch, but I finally cut them to see what was going on and found stillborns in every egg. There was still movement last month so it would appear they died around 3-4 weeks ago.

Oh man, Sandy, that really sucks! So sorry to hear that.

I was afraid it was going to turn out this way when they dimpled and nothing happened for over a week. *sigh* These things happen but it still sucks. I may try breeding this pair again in a couple of years. I'd rather focus on the ball pythons and give the corns a long break.