Baby Snakes

[ver4]

I've been taking care of variable kingsnake eggs for a member on this forum (Adfalchius) while her and BaltimoreGS go on their cross country trip.  Well, BaltimoreGS and Adfalchius left yesterday and the eggs hatched.  She's pretty upset that she wasn't here to witness it and even joked that she was coming back home. It's quite an experience watching these little guys/gals leaving their shells.  Right now there are about four snakes out of their eggs and three more attempting to escape.  I believe there are ten eggs, so we're having success.  She wasn't even sure if any of the snakes would hatch.

Here are some crappy phone pictures:

[yamahonkawazuki]

NICE work. now as long as they dont call you "daddy" youre ok. ive got a damned cat named dammit that looks to me as mommy ( and im male. damn thing will not eat for or around anyone else. ahem anyways, i tried to clean up image slightly for you

[redhawkdancing]

Awww.....let them go free!   

[Porkchop]

Wow, Adfalchius is into snakes.  It makes me wonder if she has any snake tats.   Anyway, its very nice of you to play mommy snake while they're gone.  What do baby snakes eat?

- Porkchop

[The Buddha]

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What do baby snakes eat?

Ans: - Porkchop

So what snakes are they ? something cool like a cobra or something ? or some grass snake.
Cool.
Buddha.

[scratch]

Variable Kingsnake.  Beautiful!

[The Buddha]

Variable Kingsnake.  Beautiful!

Oh yea that was in the post, I thought it was some variable stuff, who knew. Poisonous ?
Cool.
Buddha.

[ver4]

The snakes are not poisonous and they eat pinkies (which are baby mice).

[yamahonkawazuki]

awesome. msot of them eat LIVE . not dead prey. its interesting to watch sometimes

[ver4]

These will be eating dead prey for the time being.

[dohabee]

These will be eating dead prey for the time being.

I have heard that makes them less aggressive than snakes that eat live prey; any truth to that?

[ver4]

These will be eating dead prey for the time being.

I have heard that makes them less aggressive than snakes that eat live prey; any truth to that?

I'm not too sure as these are the first snakes that I have raised.  Maybe someone else knows.

[Adfalchius]

Holy mother of snakes!!!  Those are awesome!  Thanks, ver4, for the babysitting and posting!!  I'll name one after you, haha. These are also called Thayeri, or Nuevo Leon Kingsnakes- great beginner snake, tame as dogs, great color variation (hence the name Variable King).

dohabee- feeding live doesn't necessarily make them agressive (it's not a good idea for multiple reasons)- it just trains them to strike at moving things (for instance your hand).  Since alot of live food can readily attack back, they also can get more defensive, flighty.

I think redhawkdancing wants you to release one or two in her house, ver4.

Porkchop- no tats, no piercings...all natural/organic, baby.

[The Buddha]

Oh wow, these are "beginner snakes" kinda like a GS 

You know in the GSXR forums they dont talk about nothing less than a king cobra or an anaconda, minimum. 

Cool.
Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

Oh wow, these are "beginner snakes" kinda like a GS 

You know in the GSXR forums they dont talk about nothing less than a king cobra or an anaconda, minimum. 

Cool.
Buddha.

well they are mostly squids so. id expect nothing else. id LOL when one would write abotu getting one. then again when htey Buddha Loves You abotu beign bitten or almost strangled ive had to snake wrangle before. and was not fun. get a rattlesnake away from my bosses horses. pin it down, and get it away from them. did that by pinning its head down and then moving in to capture it

[ver4]

Here are some better photos:









A snake had actually escaped while I was taking these pictures.  I tore my room apart, but to no avail.  I had given up; however, as I was looking at some school documents I noticed it out of the corner of my eye and put it back in its box with the rest of them.

[yamahonkawazuki]

might consider a deeper container. else it will happen again

[ver4]

might consider a deeper container. else it will happen again

I have lids for the containers, so they'll be fine.

[redhawkdancing]

dohabee- feeding live doesn't necessarily make them agressive (it's not a good idea for multiple reasons)- it just trains them to strike at moving things (for instance your hand).  Since alot of live food can readily attack back, they also can get more defensive, flighty.

I think redhawkdancing wants you to release one or two in her house, ver4.

My Ball Python eats live. if you don't handle him before he is fed, he starts getting the idea that everytime the cage is opened, he is getting fed. I've been bit once in 16 years. It was my fault for not handling him more often.  As far as food attacking back...well, they have tried...lol. 

Releasing them in HIS house would be a bad idea. the dogs are highly offended by the very presents of the slithery ones!   I do feel kind of bad keeping them caged up though. I know mine couldn't survive on his own outside, but your babies could! 

[cbrfxr67]

How about these?  These were crawling all over the place at the river near where we were fishing on Sunday.  We caught three of them.  Who knows how many more there were.  Anybody know what they are?