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You seem to have a bi-zillion snakes, and you seem to buy many from other people.

Do you breed them? the reason I ask is, if you did, you would have 15 bi-zillion snakes. If you bred them at a normal percentage, you would have every kind of kingsnake, known and unknown to mankind and some unknown to the universe.

I am not suggesting you should or need to, or you don't, in fact, it may be better that you don't hahahahahahahaha. There may not be enough pinkies in the world.

I would think that having that many snakes and that many different kinds would indeed hinder reproduction. Besides, you would wear your fingers off feeding all of them, hahahahahahahaha.

Everytime I feed my Ruthie(i hatched) I think of you and all your wonderful snakes. I keep thinking I should take a picture of them eating in my hands. But somehow it doesn't happen.

I have this sweet sweet large female greenrat(WC) that is the calmist best feeding snake. So the other day, I was going to take a, feeding in the hand shot, she just sat in my hand with a mouse in her mouth. I think she wondered what the heck I was doing.

One more question, or thought, I get the picture, you really like snakes, keep it up, your passion is contagious. Thanks FR

I'll never be a full-scale breeder of kingsnakes or any other reptiles, i'm already a old man and happy to be a simple snake keeper.
I do have a 106qt. incubator that i put togeather last year so i may produce something sometime, we'll see.
About my "insane" in-hand feeding practices, that's just something i got hooked on as a young boy with gatersnakes and gophersnakes way back in the early 60's then i started doing the same with B.c.'s and my beloved retic. in the early 70's.
It's just a simple novelty that never wore off.

Thank you for the interesting question, and keep posting interesting info. and pics.

Thanks, I see nothing wrong with how you feed. Its sorta being interactive. I just love that you can still have such passion for snakes.

I am afraid, I get a little bored so I have to breed them. I love to see them hatch and grow. If in the early days there were more breeders, I would have loved to just raise up babies for people. I also like the mystery of not knowing whats going to come out of an egg.

I guess my two favorite parts is, seeing reptiles in nature and all their mysteries, and raising babies. These two parts I never get tired of. Sometimes adults are a pain(not just snakes), hahahahahahahahaha.

Thanks for sharing, FR

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that is a beauty......
whats the history on that one?
I too started in the 60's...
still love herpin in the woods with my dog more than almost anything....

i used to have a real cool pit/rot-X- german shepherd that would herd garters but never harm them, strange but true!