Hi everyone, regarding Black Milks, I have a yearling pair, wonderful animals, just very hard to handle. Never bite or anything like that they just seem very nervous and afraid. Is this typical of this species at this age or are these animals usually so nervous?
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Black Milk Snakes
stevemaa
May 03, 2005 09:12 AM
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Dann
May 03, 2005 03:38 PM
Yes, the young are very whippy. That will fade with time. Due to the whippy nature of the young ones I did not handle mine much.
Once your milks hit 3 or 4 years and get about 4 feet or so they start to calm down very nicely.
Dann
stevemaa
May 03, 2005 04:21 PM
Thank you Dann, the word whippy is very accurate, when I handle it can sometimes be a chore simply because they can become so frenzied.
BobS
May 04, 2005 01:48 AM
The nervous 03' male I have that I asked you the same thing about
recently just started to mellow dramaticly! I'm loving them. Thay are just as nice as you said they'd be.
Bob. 
jjjohnston
May 03, 2005 10:38 PM
I have two that are like night and day, or I should say Jekyll and Hyde. The female is calm quiet, easily handled. The male ia a psycho, twitches and bites till you get him out of the cage then he is fine. He will rear back and strike whenever I open his cage, with or without food at hand. Both are just shy of two years old, the female is 45", and the male is 35". Different bloodlines.
