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Sunherp
at Tue Feb 26 09:28:08 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sunherp ]
To answer your questions:
1) There are captive bred easterns available from breeders in spring/summer (although not as many as with other types of milks). Watch the classified ads here on kingsnake.com or elsewhere.
2) Finding milks in the wild is not an easy task - they are very secretive animals and are only likely to be active on the surface (beneath ground cover) during the right conditions. Figuring out those conditions and hunting in suitable habitats is what it's all about. I'm not overly familiar with your area of the country, but from what I've heard, all the counties you've hunted have suitable milk habitat. HOWEVER... Be fully aware that some states have strict laws against collecting native reptiles and amphibians. I believe PA to be one of them.
3) Yes, but ... F1 crosses are unlikely to resemble the desired "true" coastal look. Realize that (assuming a number of things I won't get into: e.g. - temporalis is truly an elapsoidesXtriangulum intergrade) coastal plains milks have a wide range of phenotypes, resulting from varying degrees of genetic contribution from elapsoides and triangulum from thousands of generations of genetic blending. Often only the most attractive locales are seen in the hobby.
Maybe someone else will jump in here...
Hope this helps
-Cole
Perry Lake, Kansas L.t.syspila
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- 3 eastern milk questions - ramonesfan, Tue Feb 26 04:03:48 2008
 RE: 3 eastern milk questions - Sunherp, Tue Feb 26 09:28:08 2008 
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