Paul -

I have several Texas bairds breeders that are mine and I have Steve and Kelli Hammacks baird collection on loan. Steve and Kelli Hammack have a greaat collection of both Texas and Mexican bairds and I couldn't resist the opportunity to work with them. Steve collected one of the pairs of Mexicans himself on a permit back in 1985. Conting their bairds on loan, I have the 3 pairs of Mexican bairds breeders that are Steve and Kelli Hammack and 4 pairs of Texas bairds of which 2 are the Hammacks and 2 are mine. I have severals subadults and yearlings. Some are mine and some are the Hammacks. I have a couple pairs of Mexican bairds I bought from the Hammacks that will be breedable in 2 seasons. I have some yearlings and offspring that I received or will have gotten that come from w/c parents from different locales. I get some in trades. Bairds rat snakes always fascinated me from the day I got my first trio of Texas bairds. A year later, I wanted some Mexican bairds. I've really been into bairds about 5 years now.



I like the obsoleta complex and have tried to get a pair or trio from the ones that I have to get or I'll explode. I had a trio of deckerts that I sent to someone who really liked them. They may have bred this year, but I imagine next season. I had a pair of black ratsnakes that came from a gravid female collected in Guthrie, KY courtesy of Dwight Good. I have a trio of white oak phase gray rat snakes that are yearlings now. I was hoping to get a pair or trio from Dwight Good, but I received these in a trade and they are really nice too. I favor the everglades right now. I sort of put mine together from different people either in trades or they just sent one to me. That's how I put my everglades group together. My female Marcia Lincoln came from Dangerous Dan Felice. I didn't even know what a Marcia Lincoln bloodline glades meant until Dan asked me if I would be interested in her and gave me one of his famous email crash courses in glades. Dan is the one who emailed me on how to set up a cage for spilotes. I had received a male LTC spilotes in a trade. It never ate for me. I tried, but he wouldn't cooperate. He didn't make it. I was bummed and said I would never have a spilotes again even though I had wanted one for several years before I got the one that didn't survive. Dan read one of my posts about how I killed a spilotes and wouldn't keep one again. Dan told me how to set up a cage for spilotes. He said he was male heavy with spilotes and would send me one if I set the cage up the way he does. I decided to give it a try and began to acquire the materials to build a cage based on the description Dan emailed me. I had to build the cage and send him a few pics of it before he sent me the spilotes. I got the spilotes from Dan and was nervous that I would kill him and I didn't know how that would go over with me. The male spilotes ate from the start and I even picked up a female. I had the hypo looking everglades that was actually thrown in with a shipment I was getting. The person just threw it in at the last moment and told me about it later. I traded him for 1.3 corns that were going to be a project. The male amel glades was given to me by friend who knew I had the Marcia Lincoln female and this male would be a great match being that the amel gene in the male is from the Marcia Lincoln bloodline. I bred them this past season and got a few offspring that are het for amel. I have a wishlist for snakes I want and keep an eye out for, but also I acquire snakes that cross my path and catch my eye. I better stop my rambling for now. Here's a Dwight Good produced lavender black rat snake that I received a year ago.



Terry Parks

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