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Sharing a few shots of my trio of Indiana locality bulls. All bought from Daniel Parker the last two years. Enjoy!

Wow! Those are awesome. I also got a pair from Daniel. One is browning up a bit and the other looks just like the sire. Yellow head and background with black saddles. They are my favorite bulls. I'll try to get pics up next week if not sooner. Good luck with those keepers!

Those are some bad arse bulls ...no bull!
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Thanks for posting! Those are really different, and nice.

Robert.

Great looking Bulls.

Jason

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Very nice!

Newton County, I presume?
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No. Jasper.

The older female is a Newton County animal. The other two smaller ones are Jasper.

Are you familiar with the lineage of the younger ones? It was my understanding that they are descendants of Jasper county bulls. Is Daniel working with Newton county as well? Are the babies mixed?

I'm not sure what the confusion is...I'll say it again.

The older female is Newton County. The younger pair are from Jasper County adults he called Black Bulls. Are they mixed? Oh most probably, I doubt any of them are paying attention to the county lines as they crawl about... Regardless, they are all still Kankakee area Bulls. But that's just my opinion. Could be a bit of ratsnake mixed in with those on the Illinois side...

"I'm not sure what the confusion is...I'll say it again.

The older female is Newton County. The younger pair are from Jasper County adults he called Black Bulls. Are they mixed? Oh most probably, I doubt any of them are paying attention to the county lines as they crawl about... Regardless, they are all still Kankakee area Bulls. But that's just my opinion. Could be a bit of ratsnake mixed in with those on the Illinois side..." No confusion. If you didn't understand the question or didn't know the answer, you could have just said so, less the condescention. I was not aware that the bulls from those two counties were restricted to one single population sharing one small section of "border". My inquiry about them being "mixed" was referring to the parents of the black bulls he bred in 2011. Since you acquired a Newton bull from him, I simply wondered if he infused his Newton stock (if he still has them) to produce the 11s. I mistook this place for a source of info and learning once again. My bad. Sorry I put you out.

Thanks for sharing these Russell. I produced these snakes. Just to clarify, the 2010's were pure Newton County, IN locality animals and the 2011's were pure Jasper County, IN locality animals.

The isolated island of sand prairie near the Indiana/Illinois border encompasses parts of Kankakee County in Illinois, as well as Newton and Jasper Counties in Indiana. You can find bulls that look basically similar in all of these areas with the "tricolor bull" look (basically dark near the head, light in the middle, and dark near the tail) being the dominant color phase. This is the look that has typically been associated with the "Kankakee bull," though you can find snakes that look exactly the same in Indiana. A few animals tend toward the darker side and occasionally exceptionally dark animals pop up. We have seen more of a tendency toward dark animals on the Indiana side, especially in Jasper County, though this is not a hard and fast rule.

Bull snakes do readily crawl across the artificial delineations that humans call county and state lines. A friend of mine reported seeing part of a DOR bull snake in Indiana and part of the same snake in Illinois, possibly carried there by a bird. We have also heard of bull snakes crossing roads on state and county lines. That being said, we have kept our locality lines pure to the county level to this point.

Last year, we had the opportunity to breed an exceptionally dark pair descending from Jasper County, IN. We marketed the offspring as our "Black bulls." These have not been line bred for generations, so there is still some variation in the babies and some may still end up a little lighter than the parents, while others may actually be darker. Our goal is to select for the darkest ones over the next few years to refine the "Black bull" look.
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Thank you. I have a pair of the Jaspers you sent me in October. One is very yellow with solid black saddles and resembles an Eastern Kingsnake from a glance. The other has saddles that are becoming dark brown and has alot of dark head markings. They are by far my favorite bulls ever. Thank you for the insightful post and especially for the awesome bulls. Now I don't have to represent them as "borderline" bulls.

nice!! thanks for posting this!

Those are F-I-N-E. I like the way that each is a bit different in color and pattern, yet they all have the same dark "look'" Great stuff!

Tim

Those are some very impressive animals. Nice.