What age do corn snakes have to breed?
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beladona
Sep 24, 2005 12:57 PM
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fatjay
Sep 24, 2005 02:32 PM
Size is more important that age. The female should be at least 36 inches and 300 grams.
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draybar
Sep 24, 2005 06:05 PM
>>"What age do corn snakes have to breed"
First off, corns do not "have" to breed.
If you are asking how old corns snakes need to be before you should breed them then I personally would go with three years.
A lot of people go with size which isn't neccessarily a bad thing, but a muture corn snake may simply run on the small size.
A 300 gram female at two or three years would definitely be large enough to breed but I also beleive a 250 gram female at 3 years of age would be breedable. Although only 250 grams, at 3 years of age a corn should be mature enough to breed.
Some corns just don't get as large.
So, if you rely more on age then size then I think 3 years is a safe age. especially when you look at the breeding schedules.
Let's say a corn is born in June of 2005.
well, when it reaches 3 years old it will be June 2008.
Usually corns are brumated from around Novemeber to Feb or March so the snake would be closer to 4. Definitely of an age that it should be sexually mature whetehr 250 grams or 350 grams.
Of course this is simply my opinion which may or may not mean squat.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
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LizardMom
Sep 24, 2005 10:32 PM
Beautiful corn. What morph is that? (Newbee - can't ya tell?)
draybar
Sep 25, 2005 10:39 AM
>>Beautiful corn. What morph is that? (Newbee - can't ya tell?)
That is Shana one of my Cinnamon corns.
She is a hypomelanistic cornsnake/great plains rat snake mix.
or guttata/emoryi mix expressing hypomelanism.
You should see her in person. The camera doesn't quite capture their true colors. They are very nice snakes.
here is one of her babies.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)
Draybars Snakes
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