Major bummer

[ConcinusMan]

I couldn't stand it when I see my due female concinnus doing the jiggy dance. cancel all appointments, call in sick to work, do whatever I had to do to be there. I know that if I were not there, some would have suffered that fate. Some just don't have the strength to break free of the membrane and they can get stuck to objects, dry out, and well... poor lil guys need help sometimes. And there's almost always a few that come out and it's already too late for them. You may "get used to it" but it's hard not to feel the loss, regardless of the potential dollar value of the lost ones. Snow or not snow, this morph or that morph, or regular snake, it pains me to see the lost ones especially when they die after taking a breath or two. then I turn my attention to those that appear well. Makes it all better!

Like steve was getting at, it appears that you are seeing your glass half empty. Take a look around at the squirming live ones. Your glass is half full. One might argue that it is more than half full since you have healthy live offspring. I've experienced a true EPIC FAIL and was presented with 28 fully developed dead concinnus my second time around. Not one survived that birthing. (sept 1992)

Mother made up for it with 52 offspring in 1994. about 45 made it to their 6 month age, 5 died during or after brumating. 40 healthy strong babies made it to about 1 year old before being released in the same location I found their mother when she was about a year old(1988). 40 lived and were released in early summer 1995. 40 very fit youngsters. My cup runneth over.