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Baby sneks (hatching video added)
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:05 pm
Back on June 11 I was moving a mulch pile with my tractor and discovered a clutch of 9 snake eggs. Moved on to the next mulch pile and found 16 more. Most of them were scooped and dumped before I saw them, so I wasn’t very optimistic that they’d hatch since they were rolled and jostled pretty roughly, but only a couple were dented/damaged looking. Put them in a bucket of the same mulch and stored it in my garage (temps around 86 degrees).
On June 17 I opened the bucket to find 5 baby black racers, and over a 3 day span 14 hatched.
Today the other batch started hatching.
I uncovered and moved the eggs so hopefully I can get some photos/video of them hatching.
youtube - #3 hatching
On June 17 I opened the bucket to find 5 baby black racers, and over a 3 day span 14 hatched.
Today the other batch started hatching.
I uncovered and moved the eggs so hopefully I can get some photos/video of them hatching.
youtube - #3 hatching
This post was edited on 7/20/23 at 2:52 pm
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Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:19 pm to TigrrrDad
Baby black racers are pretty cute with those big eyes.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:19 pm to TigrrrDad
I really wish I didn’t find this cool
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:22 pm to TigrrrDad
My outdoor cat has been feasting on baby garter snakes. has gotten 5 that I have seen. Can't imagine how many he's actually gotten (got bored with squirrels, apparently, after having gotten at least 5 of them as well).
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:23 pm to TigrrrDad
Found some eggs about a month ago and this thread reminds me I forgot to go back and check on them.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:35 pm to TigrrrDad
super cool. thanks for sharing.
whats your plans for them?
whats your plans for them?
This post was edited on 7/20/23 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 7/20/23 at 12:52 pm to caro81
Just going to let them go on my land where I found them.
Couple noses poking out.
Couple noses poking out.
This post was edited on 7/20/23 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 7/20/23 at 1:02 pm to TigrrrDad
Really enjoyed this thanks for posting.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 1:38 pm to TigrrrDad
Devils. All of em
Posted on 7/20/23 at 2:47 pm to TigrrrDad
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TigrrrDad
Are those all the same type of critter? I had two of those inside my house last week... It took some convincing to not completely burn down the house.
They both looked almost exactly like these (Specifically the bottom right side)
Posted on 7/20/23 at 2:55 pm to Stexas
Yes, all of those are from the same batch of eggs - black racers. They’ll eventually lose the pattern and become jet black. Black-masked racers (what some people in the South mistakenly call “blue runners”) will look just like this as juveniles too.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:02 pm to TigrrrDad
Finally got to watch one hatch - first time in my life I got to witness this.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:16 pm to TigrrrDad
Very cool thread.
Coincidentally I just watched some jurassic park a few minutes ago
Coincidentally I just watched some jurassic park a few minutes ago
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:16 pm to TigrrrDad
I grew up in Schriever and my mom would have these big box gardens in the back yard. We were old school and didn't have a tiller and just turned the ground up with a hoe. I was turning up the mud one summer and dug up 8 eggs and put them in a bucket with dirt so I could show my dad when he got home from work. When he got home we went to look at the eggs and there were 8 baby copperheads in the bucket. Evidently my dad was not very attached to that bucket because right then and there he decided to burn it.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 5:39 pm to TigrrrDad
quote:
Finally got to watch one hatch - first time in my life I got to witness this
I see they come out the egg being assholes
Posted on 7/20/23 at 6:40 pm to TigrrrDad
You remind me of John Hammond in Jurassic Park
Posted on 7/20/23 at 7:29 pm to TigrrrDad
Feels like I'm reading a batman villain origin story.
OP releases snakes. Immediately sees kids kill snakes. Insert montage of OP fuming mad. Shakes fist at sky. Builds snake costume. voila.
OP releases snakes. Immediately sees kids kill snakes. Insert montage of OP fuming mad. Shakes fist at sky. Builds snake costume. voila.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 8:30 pm to mtb010
the copperheads did not come from those eggs
Posted on 7/20/23 at 8:42 pm to mtb010
Your dad probably just thought all snakes were bad and burned them. Or it’s the first clutch of copperheads to come from hatched eggs.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:03 am to D500MAG
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the copperheads did not come from those eggs
Well I'll be damned, I was yesterday years old when I found out that Copperheads have live births and not hatched from eggs. I kinda feel bad now because we more than likely killed some harmless snakes.
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