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Too Bad This Aberrant Boa Didn't Make It!

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This baby was in a clutch of 23 live babies, 2 dead and apparently crushed by mom and 2 slugs. It's not fully developed. It would have been a real looker!

It's pictured here with a normal clutchmate.
 

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A couple more pictures of the little feller.
 

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I don't know if it was genetics that did it. I do wonder, however. Every morph starts somewhere. I love that pinstripe and hardly any pattern on the sides.

The male is a proven het albino (last year to a het albino female. He didn't know the female was het albino until she produced albino babies) and this female is just a normal he bought at a reptile show as an adult last summer.

That baby wasn't just stillborn, it was way underdeveloped. Look how small it is when compared to another baby from that clutch. Also the head isn't fully developed and one eye isn't fully developed. Even the two dead ones were fully formed & normal and it looked like mama simply smashed them.

I'm hoping that someone else with more experience in this kind of thing posts something.

I mainly wonder if any of the other babies could carry the genes that made the dead baby striped like that. I love it. If there's a snowballs chance that some of them could carry that gene, I'm gonna buy several of the babies.

I don't own these animals, my boss does. However I get first pick (after his pick)if I want some.
 
Yeah I was thinking maybe the color and pattern are just a product of the deformity , or the stage of development it died in. Just because what are the chances of the one special looking baby be the only one that didn't fully develop. Hope you get some answers. Its pretty interesting.
 
Here's a picture of the rest of the clutch before they were separated and cleaned up. Some of them have interesting patterns too. Nothing like the dead one, however. When they shed, I'll take pictures of the odd ones.
 

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Karen,
Not to dash your hopes, but I've seen similar animals in my litters over the years. You'll have a healthy group of normal-looking boas and then one outrageous looking preemie. They usually have a very reduced or non-existant pattern, along with extremely light coloration. It is my belief that the pattern and color are that last to form and since these animals perished prior to reaching that point, they exhibit these markings (or lack of).
 
I bought four of the siblings to the one that didn't make it. The father was proven het for albino last year so these have a small chance at being hets too. Here's a couple of pics.

This little lady is kinda grumpy but cute.
 

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