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These are locality specific Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes from el estado de Nuevo Leon near Galeana. Very beautiful golden yellow anterior half of body and a golden orange posterior half. The really neat part is the sharp cut off point between the golden yellow neck and the silvery-grey head.
Picked them up from a herpetologist friend who has so many animals and books that he is writing and other herp projects, that he needed to downsize somewhat. Gosh, how many of us wish that we were so herpetologically busy that we needed to back off? LOL

Here's animal #1. Just wanted to get a quick snapshot before I put them down for the winter. I haven't sexed them yet, but they're a proven pair.

Dusty Rhoads

Suboc.com

Enjoy! I'll get some better pics of these little spunky rarities after spring warm up. We also picked up some albino and Davis Mtn. bairdi. Really neat too.

We received a few subocs too last week. Some more Panther Canyon orange, Trumbower silver blondes, mustard blonde, orangish blondes, blonde het for silver and 50% het for European albino etc. etc.

We have high hopes for 2007...A lot of cool projects in the works like the new "Strawberry Blonde" subocs, more hets for Snow and Snow Blonde, albinos that are 50% poss. het fo snow etc. And fingers crossed, hopefully albinos that are 100% het for snow.

And of course, we'll be trying for snow and albino blonde with our adult triple hets again.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

DR

Simply Subocs

Looks like an exciting upcoming year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Very nice Dusty.I just love mexican Bairdi.
Heres my pair that hsould produce this next year.
Shannon

Thanks, Shannon. That adult of yours is really something. These Mexican bairdi almost look like hypo glades rats with silver heads.

Very unique animals. Did that Davis bairdi with the white spot (poss. pied) ever prove out? I love the Davis' animals. The subocs and lutosus from that area are really pretty too.

Dusty

She hasn't proved out yet but has laid bad eggs two years in a row for me?
So I have only produced 3 babies from her back to her son.I have also bred those babies to each other (only had a 50% of them being het anyway) and only produced normals but they were really nice f3s.

Maybe next year?
Shannon

Nice pair Dusty! I've always really liked the way the head color stands out from the rest of the body in the mexicans. Good score! Randy

Congrats, Randy. Beautiful Bairdi. Good luck this coming year!
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
2.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Everglades Rat Snakes
2.1.0 Baird's Rat Snake
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snake
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
3.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snake
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (1.1 River Road, 1.0 Non-Locale Specific)
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictor
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.1.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake
1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.0.0 Western Hognose
0.1.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

Neat looking animals. I have herped around Galeana a couple of times, but never found a bairdi. There is a road slightly further north that looks awesome for roadhunting (and very quiet). Hopefully I will get a chance to hunt it next year. Maybe I can post some locality bairdii pics from there next summer.

Funny think about those snakes - if you hide the head and asked someone the locality they would probably guess they were canefield snakes from Central Florida.

That reminds me, isn't it about time someone put together a locality bairdi page with photos of as many locality bairdi as possible with a clickable map? Black Kingsnakes and Eastern Kingsnakes have such pages, and bairdi certainly are more variable than those.

I'm sure KS would host it for free.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Here is another one!

Ken Diehl

And another!