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I aquired a nice collection of North American rats last weekend and this female is part of it. she just ate a mouse a day before the pic.

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Don Gallagher

What a fine Bairds!! The picture is taken just right to show off the nice red/ornage between the scales. I have two Adam Block animals (1 yr olds) that are turning out nice. Thanks for posting to give me an idea of what mine may turn out like. Has anyone ever had an Adam Block offspring turn out as great looking as his Sire??

Ken

I think we traded emails on it a couple months ago. I haven't heard of anyone having a Biardi from the Adam Block founders that has developed the amount of orange coloration of that founding male. That is not to say there isn't one or a few. Most of us know that Shannon Hiatt now has the founders in his collection. I'm sending one of my Block produced females to Shannon next year to breed back to the male founder. The offspring from that breeding may (maybe not) give us some visual insight to that question. You would think that an offspring or two would develop like that male. I was going to be sending you an email soon Ken. I was going to ask how your breedings are going.

Hi Terry, always nice to here from a true Bairds Rat freak! (ha, ha). I will be intersted in what comes out of your Adam Block pairing back to the original nice sire. Too bad it may really take (IMO) up to 3 to 4 years to really see that much orange develop if the males color genes come into play with the offspring. Just thinking....did this group conclude that Adam Block got his original pair from someone in AZ with no locality data? And that mexican Bairdi genes maybe involved in his original pair?

I actually have a female Fort Davis at 1.5 years old that could be a real screamer, more red (not orange) coming in dorsally than anything I have seen, significantly more than her clutchmate, kind of neat. No breeding this year, Loyd Lemke Baridi female was alittle too small, she is a nice light silver female. Tried to catch a Val Verde Bairdi this last week-end, no luck just a nice subocularis....intersting, every hunter I met was interested in some other species besides alterna...maybe that's what everyone says until they find a 36" light phase blairs... LOL!!...including me!

Ken

Like Ken, I love those scale edge oranges. Thanks for the pic posting show. Some really nice snakes.