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house snakes info needed

No Problem

I always enjoy passing what information we have learned over the years on to others. That is the great thing about this new age of the hobby. In years past we were always isolated it seemed and had little contact with each other. The web and sites such as this and others make things a lot easier for everyone. Let me know if I cna be of help in the future.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :)
 
I've had house snakes that are very finicky mostly young ones, a large part of the young house snakes diet consists of geckos, and skinks, If you have any of these at you disposal, you could offer it at a distance ,the smell will often trigger a feeding respons, and you can move the gecko or skink away and replace it with a pinkie,small nestling might also work.
I've kept hundreds of Brown house snakes, and I've never had one starve it's self, to death.They always come round with some coxing unless it it was sick before it started the hunger strike.
Good luck with the House snakes.
 
Browns

The brown african house snake is indeed a wonderful feeder, which is why we only keep them after tryng all the others with their inherent problems from time to time as it said in the post. Further to that point as it says in the post 85 - 95% of them take newborn pinks several days after the initial shed with no scenting or other tricks required. Over the years we have probally handled over 200 of these guys each year and I would strongly encorage folks that want something a little different to try them. Thay are really neat small snakes. One of the other things I like about them is the size differential between the males and females. In most cases the males will be less than 2' and the females around 3' with ahuge difference in size as far as diameter.

enjoy,

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
 
John,
I contacted Don. He said there would be availability in a couple of months. I'm looking forward to acquiring them. Thanks again for all the information.
 
feeding

We have always got them started on live new born pInks( I hate killing the little buggers LOL). But after 6 or 8 feeding have had no trouble switching them to frozen thawed with a bit of teasing on the end of froceps.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :eatsmiley
 
John Cherry said:
We have always got them started on live new born pInks( I hate killing the little buggers LOL). But after 6 or 8 feeding have had no trouble switching them to frozen thawed with a bit of teasing on the end of froceps.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :eatsmiley
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Great! Don said, he needed to check what the price is on a trio of Reds. I will wait for your breeders in appreciation of your participation here.
 
No Prob

No problem at all and I am sure Don would appreciate it. As for myself I am still trying to lower my debt of education that is so huge. I thank my lucky stars that a lot of folks in the past have shared information with me that helped me along the way.

Let me know if I can be of help in any way.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :)
 
I had 3 Namibian big eyeds. Unfortuantely they went MIA though I found one several weeks ago and passed him on to a friend. There were quite voracious feeders and would striek out and grab teh food and bring it back to tehm instead of bringing their body to teh prey. Very interesting feeders.
 
Lucky

You should consider yourself blessed to have had really good big eyed. Over the years we have kept probally 25 or 30 and all of them were reluctant feeders with the exception of two that did well. I finally gave up on them and concentrated on the Browns.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :>poke2<:
 
No Problem

No problem, if you want I will put together a more complete version as soon as I can get it done.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
 
John, I posted the information and stuck it to the top of this forum. I appreciate what you have done and I'm sure many others seeking information will also find it extremely helpful.

Thanks again.
 
good point

John Cherry said:
I always enjoy passing what information we have learned over the years on to others. That is the great thing about this new age of the hobby. In years past we were always isolated it seemed and had little contact with each other. The web and sites such as this and others make things a lot easier for everyone. Let me know if I cna be of help in the future.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :)
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I started into this when I was a kid (late '70s early '80s) so was even MORE isolated. The hobby itself makes people think your a weirdo sometimes :rolleyes:

Hey at least these creatures have a backbone :)

Some organisms without backbones creep even ME out :bolt01:
 
It is really surprizing to me the statistics

from a couple of years ago, where the Pet Industry council ran a survey and there were more dollars worth of sales for reptiles and reptile related items than for birds or cats in the US. I find that really hard to believe, but any where close would indicate a flourishing hobby to say the least. It seems reptiles are becoming more mainstream every day.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms :cool:
 
Dennis Hultman said:
I'm surprised that in my experience as of late, I find people more curious than anything else.
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Maybe I'll have to "come outta the closet" so to speak LOL.

I usually hide my hobby and animals because people generally go apeshit.

Usually.

I've come across a few exceptions. Maybe people aren't so weirded out by reptiles anymore. Maybe I don't get out enough LOL.
 
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