ffollett
03-26-2008, 02:08 PM
Ok here is the deal. Like I mentioned in the thread asking people about dwarf boas most members here know about my little guy Napoleon. I have a been keeping a little secret though.
We had intended on selling off his litter mates, I had even made a post about it on here. After looking at the boas and realizing how old they were we decided that would have been a BAD idea. While most of his other litter mates were normal size when born they stopped growing like normal boas. They all eat weekly some are even eating medium guinea pigs. The longest run we have had were one went off feed is 3-4 weeks. I am saying this so that everyone understands this is not a feeding issue.
We produced the litter here on 2/24/05. At this time we have 10 of the original litter left. This includes Napoleon, Lavern, and Shirley. While they may be the best looking boas of the group they are by far not the smallest.
I pulled weights on everyone a week or so ago and this is what we are looking at. All weights are in grams
Males are 680, 660, 610, and 455 (some of them are producing sperm plugs already)
Females are 1020, 765, 575, 510, 380, and 350
Both parents were normal sized boas. Unfortunalty we no longer have them so we can't produce another litter from the originals to see if this would have happened again. So it has been a matter of waiting until we can produce anything from these guys. Our first attempt will be next season so here is hoping that this pans out and we can start a line of good looking dwarf boas.
We had intended on selling off his litter mates, I had even made a post about it on here. After looking at the boas and realizing how old they were we decided that would have been a BAD idea. While most of his other litter mates were normal size when born they stopped growing like normal boas. They all eat weekly some are even eating medium guinea pigs. The longest run we have had were one went off feed is 3-4 weeks. I am saying this so that everyone understands this is not a feeding issue.
We produced the litter here on 2/24/05. At this time we have 10 of the original litter left. This includes Napoleon, Lavern, and Shirley. While they may be the best looking boas of the group they are by far not the smallest.
I pulled weights on everyone a week or so ago and this is what we are looking at. All weights are in grams
Males are 680, 660, 610, and 455 (some of them are producing sperm plugs already)
Females are 1020, 765, 575, 510, 380, and 350
Both parents were normal sized boas. Unfortunalty we no longer have them so we can't produce another litter from the originals to see if this would have happened again. So it has been a matter of waiting until we can produce anything from these guys. Our first attempt will be next season so here is hoping that this pans out and we can start a line of good looking dwarf boas.