The "Complete Boa Constrictor" has very little information about caring for newborn boas. It basically states to keep them in the birth enclosure for at least two days until the sacs have come off the cords, then transfer them into a rack tub with back heat and moist moss with the heat tape set to 90. Then after they shed in 7-10 days house them individually with the temp set to 87.
I see nothing about when to feed them, or how long before they can be sold ect. I think I remember someone saying they can be sold after one shed and two meals.
Ok so lets start with the bad news....
Out of a litter of 14,
One of the babies was still born, and I presume this because it was colorless, and still attached to all the birth medium ect.
Two of the babies were born with red soggy malformed eyes or something of that nature.
I noticed all this the first 10 seconds of looking in the window when I got home from work.
The babies with the malformed eyes are also showing signs of URI. Noticed this on the second day, opening the mouth ect. One is a little worse then the other. I also noticed the baby that has the worse URI now has a hemipene prolapse. While examining the eyes, I noticed a slimy covering on the eyes, which then dried up, so I removed the dried coverings with a wet Qtip.
Both are quarantined in a sweater box tub in my rack, with moist paper towel, and a big piece of cork bark with wet moss under it against back wall where the heat tape is. They are sitting under the bark, and the one with the worse URI is made a nest under the moss.
So far I have changed the paper towel in the litter's bin every day, sometimes twice depending on soil, and wiped it out with antibacterial soap water and a good rinse before putting new paper towel and babies back in.
They have a large water dish that's only 1 inch high to soak in on the cool end, and on the warm end have another large piece of cork bark with moist moss under it.
Everyone else seems to be doing fine, I have one baby that is maturing slowly and still has a fat belly and stuff inside, anything I should do special for him/her? I believe it to be the runt, as it has a smaller head then the rest and still a little piece of cord attached.
On the good side, the pick of the litter is already very active and the belly button is almost healed, I handled her today and I believe it to be female as the spurs are really really tiny.
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