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I was wondering if people who are interested would post some examples of their differnet Pituophis and their size and age. I want to get a feel for what size the different species and subspecies get. Thanks!
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Matt from Minnesota

Well Matt...let me think here.

Some examples of length and age from my collection are:

Burlington Co. northern pine-appr. 5 foot at 3 1/2 years.

Albino northern pine-appr. over 4 foot at 2/12 years.

Locality het albino TX bull-appr. 4 foot in 2 1/2 years.

Snow southern pine-between 3 and 4 feet in 2 1/2 years.

Stillwater hypo bull-appr. 3 feet in 3 1/2 years.

Albino Applegate gopher-between 4 1/2 and 5 feet in 5 1/2 years.

Red cape gopher-appr. between 3 1/2 and 4 feet in 3 1/2 years.

Hope this helps! Of course this can vary from snake to snake.

Take care!

Billy

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Genesis 1:1

Matt,
I have a pair of 97 red bulls that are both over 8 foot. I also have one of their daughters from 99 that is about 5 1/2 foot. Ron

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The Crawl Space

Matt,
The daughter is about 6 1/2 foot not 5 1/2, sorry. Even their eggs are huge! My female doubled clutched 2 years ago laying 18 then 14. Last year she only laid 9. This year should be another good year. Ron

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The Crawl Space

another pic of the red bull egg on scale.. Ron

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The Crawl Space

well I guess the scale was in my mind, lol. have to stop replying so late at night, lol. Ron
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The Crawl Space

I have really enjoyed the pictures of those big monsters that you have there! I'm asking this question because i have a feeling I will be getting some more Pits. sometime this fall and I will probably be wanting to build some type of rack system and am interested in how quickly these snakes get big. Therefore, I am really gratefull for your responses!

I have a 7 month old Kankakee, IL bull female that is 34 inches at 7 months old. I'm hoping she gets big someday.
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Matt from Minnesota

Here is my 23 month old Trumbower Line Snow Bull from John Cherry's stock, she is over 5' already.

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Amor et Lux,
Ron

"The gods tolerate the human race for no other reason than our talent for [bleep]. It's the only thing about us that doesn't bore them to tears" Tom Robbins "Villa Incognito"

Nice to say the least, I love to see what the hatchlings end up looking like, it makes paying attention to the specific lines worthwhile to me. Thanks for posting the picture. I believe this is the father to your animals, the female is more of a yellow phase. Yours is a really neat animal with the yellow coming thru instead of the pink/red.

Thanks again,

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms

Cherryville Farms - Reptiles

Hi

I have a pair of wild caught Sonoran gophers, female is 45 inches, around 350 g; male is slightly smaller, 250-260 g. Can anyone offer an educated guess of how old could they be? I am not sure if they are ready to breed at this size…

Thanks.

I would say they're both breedable, but I like for my females to be at least 4 feet before breeding them(exceptions: Pacifics and San Diegos).