I guess if you have to have an additction, there are a lot worse ones than pituophis. I was in the snake house today, cleaning some cages, doing some records work etc. And I started looking at the amount of space we have devoted to the pit. group and each year it seems to expand and the others remain fairly constant. They are just awesome animals.
We have started down a new road in our collection with finding and then putting together color morphs that are locale specific. It has been a chore, but man I am excited about the project.
Currently we have in the collection a bull snake that is an albino, that was caught by some folks that own a golf course three years ago. They kept him and now as an adult around 6 1/2' he is awesome. I paid them a bit of money and also had a friend secure me 7 females and 2 males form the same area. Now we have a good breeding group of locale specific animals from Lubbock, Texas. Of course they are normals, but that will start the het project and then albinos in a few years.
The other bull we have now secure is a line of axthanic bulls from the Miami County Kansas area. They are breeding true and are really awesome black and white aniamls as adults.
Several other gophers, two other bulls and one pine add to the locale morph list, but it is going to be fun in the next few years to work with them. We still plan on keeping our other lines, but are going to concentrate on this new project. LOL. My wife says it is jsut an excuse to have more pits, come to think about it. She may be right.
John Cherry
Cherryville Farms