Skinks breeding - England

[mark_w]

Some of you with long memories may remember that i have bred Irian Jayas a few times, but sold on my animals to make way for some Australian blue tongues. I have been fumbling round with no success these past few years but finally we have progress!!!

The younger of my two male northerns gives it a go!

Mango and Barkey:


I have mated this female with two different males so far. My old male who is pushing 30 ( ) was the first to go!

And my eyebands have been at it too. So far, two females (sourced from France) have mated twice each with the same male (from Russia). He is very shy though and I can't quite catch him in the act:

Sergei and Amelie:




Still a lot of work to do but a very promising start!

ps. I don't usually go in for names, but Male 1, Female 2 was getting confusing so I've named them instead.

Mark.

[SeanUK]

Great news Mark, hopefully you will get babies and i will take all your easterns

[Richard.C]

Nice job mark,fingers crosaed for you

[Jeff]

They are looking great Mark. I think this is going to be the year!

[Ophidiophile]

Those are really nice looking Easterns. Congrats on all the lock-ups!

[mark_w]

Great news Mark, hopefully you will get babies and i will take all your easterns

Cheers Sean. I don't know about ALL of them!

Mark.

[mark_w]

Nice job mark,fingers crosaed for you

Thanks Rich.

[mark_w]

They are looking great Mark. I think this is going to be the year!

Jeff lets hope so!

Mark.

[mark_w]

Those are really nice looking Easterns. Congrats on all the lock-ups!

Thanks David.

[donkeybuff]

Hopefully you get some nice eyebanded babies!

[mark_w]

Hopefully you get some nice eyebanded babies!

Me too!

[mark_w]

One for the old fellas!!!!

This is Bruce, my old male. He was described as "at least 20" when I bought him around 6 years ago. He has very few toe digits on his front feet, a wonky eye and is no longer much of a looker. But, he is pretty quick off the mark with the ladies!



Mark.

[Richard.C]

Go old bruce,he looks good,i dont mind paler ones though

[mark_w]

Yeah Rich I like the pale intermedia too. I had the pick of a litter this year and picked the palest one for some reason. I also got a couple from Spain with very dark black markings so I have a little group of 3 to grow on. Although maybe I will get babies of my own this year....

Mark.

[Richard.C]

Looks promising you will get a few bubs this year mark,all the females look nice and solid which helps to with fertilisation

[mark_w]

Life is sweet. At least it is this morning. I had to go on a 2 day work trip to Scotland at the end of 2 weeks of mating activity. Given that on the day before I left (Day 12) nobody seemed interested, I thought that the window was closed. Anyway, this morning both my male northerns locked with two separate females including one I hadn't conclusively seen mated before. Then, my male Eyeband Eastern locked with my third, previously unmated female. Babies from these would be completely unrelated to my two other females from the French bloodline. Like I say, sweet!





Mark.

[Richard.C]

Nice job mark,she looks like a sizable eastern,can never under estimate how different females cycle different to others,even when kept in same enclosure

Looking like a productive season

[mark_w]

Nice job mark,she looks like a sizable eastern,can never under estimate how different females cycle different to others,even when kept in same enclosure

Looking like a productive season

Yeah there is a bit of a size/weight difference here! He can't weigh more than a third of what she does...

[Jeff]

Is the big one the one that is unrelated? I’m curious because all of mine that are siblings of yours are the same size.

[mark_w]

Hi Jeff,

I have animals from three bloodlines. Two females from the French line which are siblings to yours. If you remember, out of the litter of seven, I kept three which were all females. I swapped one female for an unrelated male sourced from Russia (thanks to SeanUK). Plus, I have Sidney the stowaway. She is the chunky one yes. So, babies from the Russian male (Sergei) and Sidney would be unrelated to our French animals. Hope that makes sense! Just had the third lock between these two...

Mark.