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15-Dec-07, 06:00 PM
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Here is a pic of a Pilbara stimsons incubating her eggs. Every now and again I let my pythons perform what comes naturally as I really do enjoy witnessing this. To me at least, this is the pinnacle of keeping pythons.
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15-Dec-07, 06:03 PM
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She's a lovely girl. Do you find much difference in hatching rates when you incubate vs when the mother does so?
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15-Dec-07, 06:14 PM
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I have had equally the same results with both methods e.g. successes and failures.
The thing to remember though, the failures were incompetence on my part through laziness and whenever I set up either method correctly, were rewarded with 100% hatch rates.
Having said this, I find it very easy to correctly set up and maintain eggs with natural incubations. To be fair, even the natural incubations are artificially controlled to a point anyway, through the maintaining of constant humidity levels and temperatures.
Cheers Dave
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15-Dec-07, 06:22 PM
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Nice pic Dave. And a very nice looking animal she is too.
Do you breed consecutive years with natural incubation or does it leave inadequate time to re-nourish the mum?
Col J
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15-Dec-07, 07:09 PM
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Col J
With one stimsons I have had 3 natural incubations in a row, as it is not hard to quickly condition an animal.
Secondly with keeping a close to ideal incubation temperature anyway, insures that there is fewer tasks for the mother to preform e.g. shiver, urinate on eggs etc. This ultimately equates to less condition loss.
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15-Dec-07, 07:11 PM
|  | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | |
What a lovely looking snake. Thanks for posting the picture, good to see you're enjoying your reptiles! Looks like you're doing a great job 
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15-Dec-07, 07:32 PM
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Thanks Sdaji, I enjoy them up until I walk into the snake room and see 100 cages that need cleaning.
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15-Dec-07, 07:38 PM
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Overseas more and more of the big breeders are using natural incubation, it seems like the obvious thing when you think about it,
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15-Dec-07, 07:51 PM
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i have to say ,she is one of the nicest stimmies i have ever seen.
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15-Dec-07, 08:00 PM
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herpie boy
I guess as the saying goes, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I don't rate this particular python as anything I consider good looking but maybe I am just a little bit spoilt.
Cheers Dave
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15-Dec-07, 08:05 PM
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With one stimsons I have had 3 natural incubations in a row, as it is not hard to quickly condition an animal.
Secondly with keeping a close to ideal incubation temperature anyway, insures that there is fewer tasks for the mother to preform e.g. shiver, urinate on eggs etc. This ultimately equates to less condition loss.
| Thanks Dave, always nice to hear of how others are doing things. Just love those stimmies!
Col J.
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15-Dec-07, 08:29 PM
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I also thought she was a nice looking snake :-)
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16-Dec-07, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by PilbaraPythons  herpie boy
I guess as the saying goes, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I don't rate this particular python as anything I consider good looking but maybe I am just a little bit spoilt.
Cheers Dave | definatly. if you think that one is average i would love to get hold of the ones you think are crackers
Cheers
James
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16-Dec-07, 09:32 PM
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That’s the thing bimbo, a stimsons we found about a week ago that I definitely thought was hot, my girl friend and one of my boys thought it was nothing flash and I was raving on about nothing.
As far as colouration goes, there are quite a few different yet consistent looking stimsons in these parts and I would love to one day line breed them all. That’s if I live long enough.
Cheers Dave
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03-Jan-08, 11:25 AM
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As I can not seem attach pics anymore to threads, here is a link to the pic of the hatchlings. Most haven't had their first shed yet. Most of these hatchlings will be available soon. http://www.aussiepythons.com/gallery/image/1875
Cheers Dave
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