I have limited experience with milk snakes, although I maintain a pair of young black milks. One king snake breeder that I've known (Dave Doherty) cooled his honduran milks every year and has generally achieved outstanding breeding successes. He maintained his animals at about 55F during brumation (pretty standard as far as I know).



Anyway, my point is that brumation in honduran milks (and likely black milks as well) achieves good breeding successes and is quite easy for the breeder to achieve. Seems to me that the breeder would love to have the opportunity to put his snakes away for 3 months during the year w/o having to feed them or otherwise deal with them too much.... why not just go ahead and cool them for breeding?



If you have no where to cool them then consider using a small refrigerator with a secondary thermostat for cooling snakes. I've heard of breeders doing this and it is something that I intend on doing in the future.

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• brumation in milk snakes - mrbass111, Wed Apr 14 13:24:29 2004
• RE: brumation in milk snakes - rtdunham, Wed Apr 14 16:22:42 2004
• RE: brumation in milk snakes - Tad Fitzgerald, Wed Apr 14 20:35:24 2004
• good point, Terry - nategodin, Fri Apr 16 08:53:43 2004
• RE: brumation in milk snakes - oldherper, Wed Apr 14 21:06:18 2004
• RE: brumation in milk snakes - mariasman, Fri Apr 16 14:22:31 2004