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It's 3:30 in the morning here in the midwest and I have just removed 12 eggs from my tired female Texas Indigo's nest box. She still has at least one more coming. As I look at these eggs I know I am seeing what few men are priviledged to see and I hope I can see all of them hatch in a few months. I will put up some pictures tonight, but rest easier knowing that there should be more Indigos in the world soon. Hope all your females do the same for all of you. My wife just informed me as I write this that she has two more in her box now. It must be the clean living. Look for the pictures tonight!!

As I said in a previous post. I was dissuaded from buying a Texan this year but would still consider it. Will you have any available? Any lineage info?

Hi, I never count on them until I start seeing the little slits in the eggs and that will take about 85 days. Maybe around the first to the fourth of July. As much as I like the Easterns and all the others, the Texas are my personal favorites. Maybe it is just because they were my first ones or maybe it is my relationship with this particular pair, but they are the most personable snakes I own. I open the cage of the big male Texas behind me when I am cruising Kingsnake and this guy usually comes down over my shoulder right onto the desk. Maybe he is just trying to get to the floor, but I like to think he likes me. My wife says he is just after the mouse. I got these from a breeder in Chicago in 1997 who said he got his breeding stock from the Great Chuck Elliot. These have great salmon colored throats and are very large stock. This picture is of a baby from 2002. If you are prepared for the large cage requirements when they reach adulthood and the frequent feeding and of course the cleaning chores, I would say don't let anyone disuade you. You might miss one of the most rewarding contacts with another species possible on the planet. Thanks for asking.

THANK YOU!!! I'm sold. That's a beaut'.