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Breeding for Size?

jjspirko

jjspirko

African House Snake King
Has anyone tried this or does anyone know of anyone who has. What I am thinking about here is breeding a pair of say 5.5-6 footers or more if such can be found. Then contining to breed large animals with some back breeding of the largest off spring etc. Of course bringing in genes from other lines but picking the largest as well.

To me a corn is so impressive at 6 feet when you can find one. (I caught several wild ones of this size in Florida as a kid do wild corn snakes generaly grow bigger then captives?) it would be great to maximize the size of these snakes. Even a plain jane amel or okeetee etc looks amazing at the upper limit of corn snake size.

Anyone ever try it? Would it work? I can't see why it would not,

Jack
 
I had planned on doing exactly that this year but lost a big male (67") to a tumor in January. I agree that the size of +5- footer is awesome.

BTW, good post on the field herping thread.
 
Thanks for the kind words I hope that kid finds more corns then his parents can handle :wavey:

On the big corns as I mentioned in that post as a 11 year old I caught a 6 foot corn that tamed down fast (about two weeks). She was awesome with great bands kind of like an Okeetee but different. Of course I knew nothing of Okeetees at that time! I just knew she was a big awesome beautiful snake that was realy cool to handle once she stopped biting the heck out of me.

She was the only corn snake close to that size that calmed down and became docile. I always remembered her and would love to breed animals with that potential for growth.b

My newest Amel may be a prospect. She is way over 20 inches already and pretty fat at about 5 months. I hope her growth continues. Now next show I am looking for a large for age male. Wish me luck,
 
I have a couple of specimens that are between 5-6 feet. Chip Bridges has a monster Okeetee that has to be seen to be believed. (Sorry to steal your thunder, Chip ;))

BTW, where are you located now?
 
Wow

That is a beautiful snake. I wish more people would take pictures of large snakes with a person in them for scale. That is the type of animal I want in a perfect world one het for Amel.

First let me apologize for not saying before I am sorry for you loss of that big male. That is too bad and I know if I lost an animal like that it would be tough so I hope you find a new animal to take his place some day.

As for where I am now I am in Arlington TX. Where are you at?
 
Thanks

Down here in Austin, but I used to live in Frisco and Plano. Are you active with the DFW Herp Society? There are some great folks in that organization.

BTW, if you're interested I have some yearlings males from that big Okeetee. ;)
 
Het for Amel?

None of them would be Amel hets would they? Right now I have only two corns and none breeding yet. My hope is to one day breed some big uns but never be a big time breeder of them. I have a lavender that I plan to give to an old army buddy and then get an Het Amel Oak as big as I can find or from big stock like yours. I do want het though so I will get some variety in my cluches and produce all either Amels or Amel Hets.

My real breeding efforts are going to turn to African House Snakes in the future because I like being different and even someone like me can breed those things. Breeding them is like breeding a gerbil!

I am not in the Herp Society but may check it out bet I could find a lot of great folks there. Do they have a website and by chance are you going to visit DFW for the comming expo. Thanks for a great conversation so far and your feedback,
 
Here is a link to the DFW Herp Society.

I'm in the Dallas area frequently. MOF, I'll be around this weekend. Which expo are you referring to?? I know ETHS is having a big show in Houston on Sept 11 but was unaware of one in DFW.

Yeah, the true locality Okeetees *shouldn't* be het for anything. To the best of my knowledge nothing has ever popped up in this particular line. However, if you're looking for big Amel stock, I've got some hatchlings available from big parents.

Giving away a Lav to an Army buddy???? Wish my Army buds were that generous! ;) What MOS and units?
 
The MOS was 63S or Heavy Wheeled Mechanic. More details are in my response to your PM. Sometime when your in DFW we should grab a beer,
 
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