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Boy don't times change

Welcome to CS.com. I can't wait to partake in some good conversations about Cornsnakes with you. This is a great community to be a part of as we all have one thing in common....... the love of Cornsnakes. Again, welcome to CS.com and see you on the boards. :cheers:
Jay :cool:
 
Didn't know it was "herping" but did it all summer, every summer

Khaman said:
Welcome :wavey: So which dry creek bed in Ky where you herping in?
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Well, actually, we lived in Barlow, in Ballard County, 1968-1974. Attended 1st thru 5th grades there.
The creek ran from the tobacco fields just north of town, west through pastures to the Ohio river bottom, and the Ohio river. I didn't realize until years later just how rich that area was for all kinds of snakes. The town was so small that in the heat of the summer, as they are wont to do, milk snakes crawled onto the streets/roads, in town, to warm up to then go hunting.
We caught and examined garters and racers like CSI's. LOL.
That corn snake was unlike anything I had ever seen. I took it home and kept it for days hoping it would "live" again. I've been on a quest for the perfect corn ever since.
 
Do not want to come in with both guns blaring

snakewispera snr said:
It's a bit unfair to sink into the back ground after making that kind of intro....LOL.. ;)
I was hoping you might want to join in. :cheers:
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LOL. Thanks for the sentiment. And, yes I have stories. Like the 5-ft Buttermilk Snake (racer) who I had by the tail, but his mouth ended up having me by the nose. (But I still never let go...LOL...I'm a REAL herp freak.)
Don't want to overstep my "newbie" boundaries.
But I do have some observations over the years of rat snakes in general, and Corn Snakes specifically, watching their courtship, "behavioral" ways to sex them, even when young. I have probed and popped, but I don't really like to "molest" or assault the poor snakes' dignity any more than necessary.
 
Blare away!!

I'd personally love to see photos of you with a racer on your nose, but that's just me. ;)

But...I think I can safely speak for the masses....let's see some pics!! :cheers:
 
Photography comes next

LBoz said:
I'd personally love to see photos of you with a racer on your nose, but that's just me. ;)

But...I think I can safely speak for the masses....let's see some pics!! :cheers:
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Don't have any old pics....hhmmm....I'll look. I'm just getting back into keeping herps after a long hiatus. Taking pictures back in the 70's and 80's was primitive, compared to now. And I'll have to learn how to get new ones, once taken, onto the site.
I bought one (just plain good-looking corn) just before hurricane Gustav, but then rescued ten more post-Gustav while in Shreveport and after returning to Baton Rouge.
They're nothing grand, but they are already special to me. I'm busy now sexing them, figuring out what morph to call them, and figuring out names for them. One is a motley stripe(?), two are hypomel, two are amels, two are hypo-erythric(sp?) is the best I can tell, and four are traditional-looking Miamis or Okeetees. This is just a very amateur, on my part, description.
The little stripe, is very endearing and hard to take my eyes off of.
Don't know their genetic history, but really don't care. I'm a long way from thinking about breeding or even outcomes.
Just glad that they chose me to come home with.
 
Last try at captive bred was bad luck

LBoz said:
I'd personally love to see photos of you with a racer on your nose, but that's just me. ;)

But...I think I can safely speak for the masses....let's see some pics!! :cheers:
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In 1993, (pre-internet days), while on vacation in Houston, I combed every petshop in the city for the perfect (looking) corn. Found him in the last shop--but he ended up dying three weeks later of the yeast in the mouth thing.
So I've been very hesitant, until now, about having the right information and accommodations to go about jumping back in to the milieu of "corn keepers".
 
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