A friend of mine hatched this little guy from a WC gravid female from Lyon Co., KY. It's feeding on lizard scented pinky heads.
Probably an intergrade but mostly syspila.
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Baby Kentucky Milk Photo
milksandbeer
Jan 15, 2007 04:05 PM
Replies (6)
terryd
Jan 15, 2007 04:08 PM
Wow! Smoking! How many eggs did the female drop.
milksandbeer
Jan 15, 2007 04:16 PM
I think he said she dropped 16!
DMong
Jan 15, 2007 05:48 PM
I would have to agree, that's one PRETTY little item!...aside from the "world record" sized clutch!!(LOL)...Doug
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reako45
Jan 15, 2007 10:41 PM
16 eggs?! Wow! How many hatched? Beautiful snake. You wrote that you think it's an integrade. Integraded w/ what?
reako45
milksandbeer
Jan 16, 2007 07:11 AM
I'll have to double check on the number of eggs that hatched etc.
I said intergrade because Lyon County Kentucky is considered to
be in the zone of intergradation between Red and Eastern Milk Snakes. In zones of intergradation you can find specimens that resemble either subspecies or look somewhere in between. This snake lacks the classic syspila "collar", but even some "pure"
syspila can lack the collar too.
Sunherp
Jan 16, 2007 01:34 PM
Nice snake! That's a huge clutch, too. Was the female unusually large?
-Cole
