In addition, people were not playing around with hybrids back then as they are now.

Tim,
I'm not sure if you are aware or not, but corns were being hybridized with yellow rats as early as the 1930s. Heck even the man credited with establishing the first amelanistic corns in captivity in the early 1960's (Dr. Bern Bechtel) was crossing corns and yellow rats in the late 1950's. These hybrid breedings are documented in herp journals, I can post complete citations if anyone is interested.

As far as bloodreds being Baird's crosses, I certainly don't see it myself. Maybe Don at SMR can post pics of some of the corn x Bairds that he had in the past? From what I remember they were neat looking snakes, especially the F2 morph animals. I don't remember them looking like bloodreds though.

Dwight Good

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