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Heres a group I am working with. heck, I have bred thayeri starting 76, oh my.

I hatched the three normals from gifts. For some reason my friends I need to breed snakes. Heck the albinos were a gift too. I love this new age of snakes. hahahahaha

The albinos are suppose to be a pair, but I have not checked. Enjoy

it's more fun than breeding mice!
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Have you seen my mice,,,,,wahoooooo cute I tell yea

Are you still feeding the gopher snakes? Haven't heard about them this year.
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Todd Hughes

of course I am, hahahahahahaha. But, that old couple has not been seen in a while. And because of the rains, we have MILLIONS of gophers all over. And I do mean millions. We are over run with them.

I did feed in one individual diamondback and it stayed around for a long time. I could track it when it left and when it returned.

One day my daugther was working on mice and it crawled up to her looking for a mouse, hahahahahahahahaha shes kinda use to that, so she just called me on my cell and told me to feed that dang thing.

Of all things, a Coachwhip has taken up residence where the gophers were and under my buildings porch. Its amazing how a daytime active snake, that suppose to spend lots of time above ground, is NEVER SEEN. I find its sheds all the time, and have seen it only by accident when its half in its hole. hahahahahahahaha Cheers

Frank,

The last two in your pics are not pure thayeri. Those are what Professional Breeders are calling the "pastel kingsnake". They are ruthveni/thayeri hybrids.

Just letting you know for informational purposes only because you said they were given to you. (If those are indeed the same ones you were referring to as the albinos in previous posts).
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Species kept:

Nuevo Leon Kings
Kunasir Island Rats
San Luis Potosi Kings
Axanthic Desert Kings
White Oak Gray Rats
Corns

Coming Soon:

Western Green Rats

Well they were not from him. And I would rather had his pastels. But I could careless. As a mutant is a mutant. Consider, an albino is a non successful mutation. So, if they look like Thayeri and they indeed have all thayeri characteristics. Then they are good enough. As they will only end up as mutants anyway(eye candy).

No offense, but 90% of the thayeri I see on this forum do not represent anything I ever saw in nature and I saw a lot in nature. They were simply derived from nature. My bet is, ruthvens(the albino gene) is actually much closer to wild thayeri, then the bright orange mutants seen in captivity and called thayeri.

So for me to think of most captive thayeri as pure or whatever is very odd. They are simply captive produced kings, bred and selected for reasons other then what nature selects for. Thayeri are also non local specific. That is, there are none that were bred to animals found in the same population.

And I am not criticizing that, it simply is what it is. Cheers