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Hey draybar. Are you going to have any Bairds Rat Snakes available? Are they good snakes? (compared to a well manered corn)
I've got a corn a ball and a boa.... Boa is fine, ball wont eat, and Hope is a perfect angel! Just wondering what she will be most like. Also heard something about hows rats will just randomly turn around bite twice and be fine..... are bairds and black rats notorious for this?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"

>>Hey draybar. Are you going to have any Bairds Rat Snakes available? Are they good snakes? (compared to a well manered corn)
>>I've got a corn a ball and a boa.... Boa is fine, ball wont eat, and Hope is a perfect angel! Just wondering what she will be most like. Also heard something about hows rats will just randomly turn around bite twice and be fine..... are bairds and black rats notorious for this?
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I've only got the three bairds eggs. So, no I won't have any available....bummer.
to answer your question, though...Bairds rat snakes are great snakes. They are more active then most corns but with a good attitude.
My bairdis never bite. They are a bit more flighty when handled but like I said, they never bite.
And on top of all that, they are beautiful snakes.
Now I have had black rats and my yellow rat just bite out of the blue but I can attribute the black rats to the fact that they were all wild caught and not as hatchlings. A wild caught hatchling or captive bred specimen raised from a hatchling would probably be just as easy to handle as most corns or bairdis.
My yellow rat I can probably attribute to the fact that I don't handle him as much as I do most of my other snakes.
He is a beautiful snake but for some reason I just don't really care for him. Maybe he senses it.....LOL
so, let me say this....I would recommend a bairds rat snake to any and everyone.
I love 'em

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

Love my bairds.Great snakes with no attitude.Im sure there are exceptions but all 3 of mine are great to handle.There the snakes I bring out when my son brings his buddies over. There(9-12) years old and have a blast with them.My bairds are all very active.

Are they all that silvery? I know they can't ALL be but is that the usuall coloration? Who would have them still for a reasonable price? Rat snakes are usually pretty cheap...(new world) they don't get the attention they deserve!
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"

Gotta agree with the other guys here. Baird's are great snakes. I haven't ever been bitten by one, and I've handled quite a few. Come to think of it, none of the rat snake keepers and breeders that I know have ever told me that they were bitten by a Baird's. Great pet snake. Easy to keep, feeds well, easy to handle, and fairly active. I should have some babies in about three weeks. Good luck!

Bryan

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Last night I was laying in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the hell is my ceiling?"

notice the pictures Paul, Bryan and I posted.
They are all beautiful snakes and yet they all three look different.
Gotta love the variety, beauty and ease of care and handling.
how about another

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

np

You could post 50 Bairdi, and they'd all look different. Here's my 04 male.

Steve

>>I think I will post a couple more...lol

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

np

np

Is there any way to tell when they are young which will come out silvery?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"

Not when they are firt born. They all look pretty much the same at that age and there is no way to tell. Your best bet would be to buy a sub-adult or adult, or if you purchase a hatchling, know what the adult breeders look like. Some will develope so much orange and reds that you don't even see much silver anymore. Others turn out all silver with little or no color beteen the scales. And then you have everthing else inbetween. If you like Draybar's adults, he may be breeding them sometime soon, if not already. My bairdi came from Vivid reptiles. Check out their adult breeders. You may like the look of them. Bairdi are one of the best ratsnakes you can own. I love mine.

Steve

"Is there any way to tell when they are young which will come out silvery"?

>>Steve hit right on the nose.
They all look almost identical as hatchlings. No way to know how they will look as they mature.
The parents would be a good indication but even that can be misleading. Truthfully I don't see how you could get an ugly one...lol
Vivid Reptiles has some beauties.
I got mine from Renegade Reptiles.
Paul (Gargoyle) will hopefully have a good clutch laid soon.
Unfortunately I only have three Bairdi eggs. Both of my females only laid like five each.
Three were good out of one clutch and none out of the other.
Although both females were three years old I don't beleive they had quite enough girth or weight. Next season they will be ready!!!!!
by the way...If Paul gets a clutch and my three eggs hatch I hope to trade him a pair of mine for a pair of his.
Leaving me only one of my own hatchlings.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes