Do you all cull those non-feeding snakes with cannibalistic tendencies from your stock? Or are they permitted to live, breed, and potentially pass on a taste for their own kind?



I'm just kind of curious as to whether or not it's a genetic predisposition towards cannibalism. Kathy mentioned that out of all of the babies she's had over the years, only 2 or 3 ate a sibling, and all of them were bloodred. So does that line of bloodreds have this taste for corn snake bred into them?



It's like when we raised chickens, invariably it'd be the best laying hen we had, but always had one in the bunch that would eat her own eggs after laying them. We quickly culled those individuals from the stock, because curiously enough, the trait for egg eating was passed on from mother to daughter. So we always decided to nip it in the bud before it got passed on.



I dunno. Mostly just thinking out loud here.
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