2026 Season

A rocky start to the season this year, with a 3-year-old, first time mum. She's been renamed Ostritch, given the size of the eggs she produced. She was unable to pass the seventh egg in her clutch and after 24 hours with no progress we popped off to the exotic vets. They sedated her and aspirated the contents of the egg so it was able to be removed, and then manually removed the remaining 9 eggs while she was sedated. Due to the invasive treatment, she's on a long course of antibiotics to guard against any infection.  

Out of the 16 eggs in total, four of the eggs she laid herself, and two that the vet removed have survived the early days of incubation - so she will at least have something to show for her trauma. 

She is a normal possibly het sable, toffee belly and albino. She's been paired with two males, Twix2 a sable conda possibly het toffee belly and axanthic, and H4 a toffee belly het albino. 

The second clutch this season was not a huge improvement on the first, though thankfully there was no vet visit needed. 

Anna, a snow, produced a clutch of 14 eggs, though sadly 12 of those eggs were slugs. She was paired with Columbo, a conda het sable and toffee belly, possibly het albino and axanthic. 

Two eggs are unlikely to be enough to prove out his possible hets, unless the odds-gods are incredibly kind to me!

I'm also considering the possibility that the pairing failed completely as I didn't observe a lock, and these two fertile eggs could be from stored sperm from last seasons pairing, which was an albino het axanthic - so even if a hatchling does show either trait I can't be sure it came from Columbo. 

Finally, clutch 3 was a return to the sort of results I'm more used to, Met laid a beautiful clutch of 10 eggs, neatly stacked and buried in the lay box. I felt a bit like an archaeologist uncovering them all.

She's an axanthic conda, het sable and albino, paired with an albino het sable. I'm very much looking forward to these babies.

Clutch 4 was another disappointment, Lacey was paired with Twix2 and laid a huge 26 egg clutch, sadly all of them slugs.

Clutch 5 and we're riding the rollercoaster of the season back to a high. Silverstone produced an amazing 19 egg clutch, with just one slug - what an amazing first-time mum. 

She's an axanthic conda possibly het toffee belly and albino, paired with Ernie, an arctic het albino and axanthic. 

I'm excited for more arctic axanthics, I love the changes these snakes show through their growth sheds. 

The tide seems to be turning in our favour, Summit a normal female, possibly het sable, toffee and albino (the sister of Ostrich) laid 14 good eggs. She was also paired to two males, Teramo - albino het sable, and Columbo, conda het sable and toffee, possibly het snow. 

The final first clutch this season is from Cream (Sister to Cookies who has not been paired) she's an arctic axanthic possibly het albino, paired with Pumbaa, an axanthic conda het albino. She's laid 10 eggs, she struggled with the last egg and though we did manage to assist her in laying it, the egg sadly didn't survive.