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07-18-2007, 09:48 PM
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Gravid Red Tail
I have a female red tail that was with my male for about 2 months, and i saw them lock numerous times. They were together january and feburary....
im thinking that she should of had them by now...how long until they are supposed to drop the babies??
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07-18-2007, 09:51 PM
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you might want to post this in the Boa Discussion Forum
thank you, to whoever moved it here
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07-19-2007, 12:20 AM
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uh....
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07-19-2007, 06:35 AM
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Randall, see my post below about the 'hang' test. Also, apparently gravid females body temps will be around 88 degrees give or take a few degrees (higher than non-gravid snakes).
Did your female swell sometime in February, and then shed? Normally females give birth 105 days after a post-ovulation shed. Try the hang test and see if her back half gets lumpy. Take her body temp with a temp gun, if it's 85-88 she might be gravid. Though with the heatwave currently going on, that might not tell you much (all my boas seemed to have high body temps yesterday, males included).
I just went through the same thing - waiting and waiting... last resort is a sonogram like Heath had done.
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07-19-2007, 07:42 AM
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When did ovulation take place? That would be the more important thing to note.
A simple Xray can show it too. If she's gravid, and gestating, there will be skeletal evidence by now. If not gravid, but she ovulated, you'll see the infertile ovum, (slugs) spread through out her body. Or nothing if no ovulation ever occurred and she reabsorbed. An Xray of one who "thought" she was gravid, and acted like it, but didn't fertilize the ovum.
Rick
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07-26-2007, 11:14 PM
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I had no idea an X-ray would be evidence enough..... Were can I get one of those machines...LOL
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07-27-2007, 06:48 AM
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It takes a little knowledge to get the settings at the right strength, but it can be done easy enough. This one is a new digital X-ray machine. The X-ray was on the computer screen before I had her put back up. 30 seconds maybe.
Cool stuff for sure.
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