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Derek Morgan
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PostSubject: Delayed birthing   Delayed birthing Icon_minitimeThu 18 Dec - 0:21

I have an Atheris squamigera female who dropped five neonates for me on 11/28 and there were zero slugs. I looked her over good, but did not palpate her to see if there were any unborn babies. This species is live-bearing, for those who don't know. I found this in the cage yesterday:

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It was quite dead when I found it, but not broken down in any way. This is 17 days after giving birth to five healthy babies. Has anyone ever heard of this happening this late?

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Christian Moisander
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PostSubject: Re: Delayed birthing   Delayed birthing Icon_minitimeThu 18 Dec - 7:49

Sorry to hear about that Derek.

I had a similar experience once; I have a CBB 11/2001 female, which gave birth on Jan. 26th, 2004. Two babies were in the terrarium in the morning and when I got back from work, a third baby plus one slug had been dropped.
In my opinion, I searched the small terrarium pretty well, as these were my first squam babies ever. Nothing more was found.

On Feb. 2nd the female had pooped, and as I cleaned that up the terrarium, one stillborn baby was found, still coiled up tighter than yours in the picture.

On April 29th I notice something sticking atop a cork hideout, and it turned out to be a dried up baby, looking pretty much like yours, only a slightly different posture.

On an irrelevant sidenote, it was this same female who gave birth this year; it was her second litter at the age of 6,5 and again only three babies were born. Tiny as they come, and this time there were no stillborns.
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PostSubject: Re: Delayed birthing   Delayed birthing Icon_minitimeThu 18 Dec - 22:06

Well, I think that yours beat what my girl did!!! Laughing Jan-April is a huge amount of time to harbor a little dead baby inside them, geez! I wonder what would cause that to happen. This was my girl's first time breeding, too. Thanks for the reply buddy!
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PostSubject: Re: Delayed birthing   Delayed birthing Icon_minitimeFri 19 Dec - 7:07

No problem at all. Didn't mean to outdo you though Laughing

Seeing what happened to my nasicornis and schlegelii, I'm real happy that my squam female survived holding two carcasses for that long.
I would also like to know what causes this kind of an event.
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