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Here is one of the babies from this pairing (accidental breeding) after two sheds. No clue how these little guys will turn out in a few months. Both the parents are South Florida locale animals,btw. Anyone else ever seen this cross/intergrade?

>>Here is one of the babies from this pairing (accidental breeding) after two sheds. No clue how these little guys will turn out in a few months. Both the parents are South Florida locale animals,btw. Anyone else ever seen this cross/intergrade?
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I know yellow rat/corn crosses have been done.
Quite a few times even but I don't know if I remember seeing adults.
I guess you will just have to keep a pair to see.
The hatchling looks pretty nice.
Of course some people will say they're mutts and shouldn't be alive and some will find the mix interesting. The nature of our hobby.
I have some bairdi/corn crosses (not an accident)that I can't wait to see mature.
I have seen pictures of adult bairdi/corn crosses but they all looked different. Makes it pretty interesting to me.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
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Draybars Snakes

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Thanks Jimmy, yes they are mutts for sure, but I still think they are pretty cool. Although, I'm also sure that since they share the same habitat across so much of their range that natural intergrades must occur on a fairly regular basis. Anyway, your comment about the adult bairdi/corn crosses being very variable struck home as all my little crosses have different looks from head patterns, to belly patterns to ground and saddle colors. Some are more guttata looking while others lean a bit more towards obsoleta. Gonna be fun to watch these guys develop.

I had one in my origional collection back in my Florida days.
It wasn't all that attractive by the time it was 4 feet in length. Pattern not all that great. Didn't resemble either species much.

Matthew