Have any of you had regular success or know of anyone that has? I've bred a number of N.American colubrids, but never crotes. Any help would be appreciated. Shane
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Breeding Pygmy rattlesnakes?
TxHerper
Sep 30, 2003 06:04 PM
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skin78
Oct 01, 2003 01:33 PM
I haven't bred them.. I don;t have hots yet but I know they are hard to get to feed .. breeding I don't know
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andey
Oct 04, 2003 12:13 PM
I've never bred pygs, but I've worked with them extensivly enough. They are excellent first venomous snakes, I would even say better than copperheads in some cases. Most of them aren't hard to feed, except for the babies, which are tiny. A friend of mine had a neonate that couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 cm long, and we couldn't get it to eat anything. (it was WC so we released it where we found it). Every adult (except 1) I've ever kept would accept 2-4 pinkies a week, though I normally wouldn't feed them that much. The reluctant one had a genetic skin disease that it later died from. For market information normally Westerns and Duskies can go for $20-$30 and red pygs can go for $100-$200, though all of them are beautiful. Pygs are rattlesnakes but not crotes, they belong to genus sisturus, which also carries massasaguas. Their venom is very week, they adults are fabled to not have lasting damage if you seek immediate attention (though I know if you don't you can loose digits) My friend was bitten by his neonate and it made a blister about the size of a pinhead and did nothing else.
I probably haven't been helping much, so I will recommend an excellent website with loads of field info. www.stetson.edu/departments/biology/team.shtml
good luck!
TxHerper
Oct 05, 2003 09:56 PM
Andey, thanks for the info. I already have a pair of both S.m.streckeri and S.c.tergeminus that I caught this year. Great little snakes. I have heard that many people have problems bringing them out of hibernation. I've seen the Stetson site before and I like it, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find any good internet resources on breeding Sistrurus. Thanks again. Shane
