Home Grown Hogs

Home Grown Hogs A blog to showcase my little home grown h**p menagerie (with a soft spot for hognoses)

Well...I was on the fence about keeping this girl because of her albino het (which I didn't actually want) but then I we...
29/05/2026

Well...I was on the fence about keeping this girl because of her albino het (which I didn't actually want) but then I went to take some pictures and she simply passed away in my palm 🤡😂

This is my first baby to play dead, a hognose defense mechanism typically only seen in fresh hatchlings.
So far this has been her only dramatic flair, she's already figured out I won't eat her and now just gives me stink eye 🤷‍♀️👀

I think we might give this crazy pairing a go then, it'll be Axanthic conda 100% het albino, 100% het caramel x Caramel 100% het albino, 100% het axanthic. Wrap your head around that! 🫪

One of the first things people say when they pick up a baby from us is "Oh it's so small!"On the left is a freshly hatch...
25/05/2026

One of the first things people say when they pick up a baby from us is "Oh it's so small!"

On the left is a freshly hatched baby and on the right is one of our established babies. I always say that they've grown quite a lot but hopefully now you can see just how much! 😅😂

They really do hatch out so teeny tiny, usually somewhere around 6g upwards and they tend to be ready for rehoming somewhere around 15g+ ☺️

Daisy's first clutch is fully out!We got four albinos, two normals, a conda and an axanthic conda.Rodger was 🚨 NOT 🚨 adv...
22/05/2026

Daisy's first clutch is fully out!
We got four albinos, two normals, a conda and an axanthic conda.

Rodger was 🚨 NOT 🚨 advertised as het albino and so my streak of being the unluckiest luckiest breeder continues 😅😂

This is my third season...and also my third season of finding a surprise het albino. Almost every single one of my breeders is het albino and I actually..don't want that 😅

My goal from this clutch was to keep an axanthic conda female (which we hit the odds for) in order to make frostbites later down the line but now she's het albino and I'm not particularly interested in producing caramel snows so I've got some thinking to do 🤔

A big thank you to all those that advised/reassured me about this clutch. This is Daisy's first clutch, it was the one w...
17/05/2026

A big thank you to all those that advised/reassured me about this clutch. This is Daisy's first clutch, it was the one with the eggs that looked fertile but candled to have no embryos. Those eggs did eventually go bad and this is what we're left with.

The pairing was Albino conda 100% het axanthic x Caramel 66% het axanthic, 66% het toffeebelly
..you might notice that the male was NOT sold as being het albino..and yet there is indeed an albino 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I'll have to do some detective work with Daisy's second clutch and Tammie's first clutch (who Rodger also fathered) to try and figure out if it's a split father clutch with Spencer from last season or if Rodger has a surprise het!

14/05/2026

This little guy has been deserving of an upgrade for a while now but every time I tried to give him more space he'd immediately refuse food!
I'm hoping that after a season of maturing he's now ready to accept a bigger room
..so onto the second half, one of the eggs has pipped and inside is a gorgeous little 🚨 albino 🚨 baby! Rodger was not sold as het albino.

Does he have a secret het?
Did Daisy retain s***m from last year?
Was one half fathered by Rodger and the other by Spencer?!?!

I'm hoping that it'll become clear when they're all out but if he IS het albino that actually really messes up my plans 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

09/05/2026

I really don't know if Tammie ate some of her eggs this season? She was quite swollen, I definitely thought there was more than one and the only one I found was shoved so far in the corner under the moss - maybe it was the only one she couldn't access to eat?

But she also laid only one egg in her second clutch last year....did she also eat some back then or is this just what she does? Lays one egg? 🤷‍♀️

Well, we are only FIVE days away from entering the hatching period and I know I've been blabbing on about the genetics t...
05/05/2026

Well, we are only FIVE days away from entering the hatching period and I know I've been blabbing on about the genetics this whole time but it can be really confusing with all the names and combinations.

I like to make these "breeding trees" so that if you don't know what I mean when I talk about "caramel" or "axanthic" you can at least see the colours that we're hoping to see this year

We're gambling big time this season, hopefully you can see from these trees that if we hit that 66% chance then we'll hatch brown snakes and grey snakes....buuuuuut if we don't hit those odds then we'll just have some lovely brown snakes 😊

Keep 'em coming!Daisy's second clutch is here and I've got to say I am very happy with seven. Across two years Daisy has...
01/05/2026

Keep 'em coming!
Daisy's second clutch is here and I've got to say I am very happy with seven. Across two years Daisy has laid 40 eggs for me across three clutches and these are her first EVER slugs 👏👏

Remember the first batch that were growing but had no embryo? Yeah they finally realised that they're infertile and have begun to mould so we removed those, I'm pleased to see that none of these have that same thing going on so I don't believe it's a problem with her genetically

It is only TEN days until we enter the hatching window for her first clutch, I am so beyond excited! I am praying to anything and everything to see some little grey heads poking out 🙏🤞

We really are in the thick of the 2026 season, every single post is about eggs and it won't be slowing down for another ...
29/04/2026

We really are in the thick of the 2026 season, every single post is about eggs and it won't be slowing down for another month yet! 💥

Daisy is in deep blue for her pre-lay shed, she really hasn't blown up in size much so I'm not expecting too many eggs from her. Having said that, she is my main overachiever so I'm preparing to eat those words 🤭

At the time of posting she's actually had that shed and we're on day six of waiting for her to lay, she laid her first clutch on day eight. I'm hoping to return home from work today to see some pearly whites!! 😆😁

Marissa laid her clutch!I definitely didn't think she had six eggs in her, and no slugs! A fantastic first clutch for he...
25/04/2026

Marissa laid her clutch!
I definitely didn't think she had six eggs in her, and no slugs! A fantastic first clutch for her, she's since had a meal and is now snoozing on her hotspot 🥳♨️

As she's a first timer and a smaller female, I would really like this to be her only clutch of the season but the other ladies are going for gold so we'll see what happens!

These eggs will be kicking off my moonstone project, it's a morph I've always had my eye on and I purchased my first breeding pair with the combination in mind. It's exciting to hopefully be able to take another step towards achieving it 😆

Ideal situation is to hatch a male arctic lavender, fingers crossed 🤞

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