The Zoo: April 2007

Kaeleb's New Snake

Here is hatch#2, Kaeleb has named it Thomas

If you look in the picture below, the bottom egg in the group of three, bottom left corner you can see yet another head peeking out!

Labels: Hatch #2 - Thomas

Here are our two babies, Daelin's is completely out of his egg, in the top left corner of the little container. Kaeleb's is peeking out of the egg in the middle of the container. We aren't sure if any of the other eggs are hatching as they are buried and we can't see them. When Kaeleb's baby comes completely out of his egg we'll have a better idea if there are more.

There is Kaeleb's little baby that he wants to name Thomas.

Here is Richard removing Daelin's snake from the incubator.

Labels: Our first hatch

Here is the first of our hatches. Pretty amazing to think he came out of that tiny egg! Daelin would like to name him lucky as he has a lucky spot on his head. In Borzoi it is called "the kiss of the czar"

Here he is in his new home.

Labels: Our first hatch2

Shadow's Baby

The Hillview Zoo is very proud to announce our first hatchling California King Snake! It may take a couple days for the baby to fully emerge from its egg and then we'll post some more pics. We are all very excited! In fact Richard's hands were shaking after he checked the egg box :-) It took 62 days from laying to hatching that's a long wait but well worth it. We may end up with more than one but we aren't counting our snake babies before they hatch!

Daelin will be keeping this one!

Labels: Shadow's Baby

Richard re-decorated his aviary this past weekend and the birds just loved it. He never did close it down over the winter so they've had access to the outdoors year round!