Large Pythons

[lurcherman 887 13,079]

Did don just bite lol

[keepdiggin 9,559]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah no one likes the black stuff more then mrs katchum ✊

Liar, you do you saucy lil hooligan

ive seen\starred in some of her videos my particular favourite one you go black......

She told me of her lil faggoty costar, pleases to finally meet ye pal

in my defence your mum makes stone cold Steve Austin seem faggoty

not really hen, I think its just you

she has broader shoulder then the big show

No that’s just the impression she gives to wee weedy fcuker likes you haha

i'd carry on with the insults but i think natures done enough

You’ve used that before ffs it’s that what it’s come to haha get a grip wee man haha

 

lol that'll do pig.....that'll do

 

 

only bants mate i love your mum really

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,676]

Snakes are my phobia

 

I'm actually terrified of them

 

Put my feet up on the coach when they come on telly lol

 

Killed a big f**k off green one in Kenya ?? once and buried it with the digger, the c**t came up striking at the bucket

 

Gave me nightmares for weeks

[WILF 46,566]

Snakes are my phobia

I'm actually terrified of them

Put my feet up on the coach when they come on telly lol

Killed a big f**k off green one in Kenya once and buried it with the digger, the c**t came up striking at the bucket

Gave me nightmares for weeks

Zzzzzzzzz.......zzzzzzzzz

[BGD 6,434]

Snakes are my phobia

 

I'm actually terrified of them

 

Put my feet up on the coach when they come on telly lol

 

Killed a big f**k off green one in Kenya ?? once and buried it with the digger, the c**t came up striking at the bucket

 

Gave me nightmares for weeks

Most likely a green mamba, I'd be shitting myself in that situation too! Evil buggers they are, unlike most snakes they'll actually chase you down if you piss them off enough and if you get bit by one out in the bush you're pretty much fecked.

[Johno2486 67]

Some very interesting posts on here ad also some very funny ones.

 

Back to the original post. Snakes are not loyal to their owners. But they can get desensitised to smells which are around them all the time. So they effectively think of their hsndler as just part of their environment if they are touched and exposed to the hsndker enough. I have a friend in America who keeps lots of reptlies and he feeds live rats at times (illegal in uk). He said quite often if the snake doesn't eat the rat in the first instance he used to leave it in the tank but soon realised that they simply wouldn't get eaten. He could put a second rat on a week or so later which the snake would eat when it was hungry enough but still wouldn't touch the first one. He even had a story of a rat which started chewing on the snake as it lay basking when it was left in the tank.

I had around 40 snakes that were 100% live feeders, it's not illegal in UK, (it's frowned upon by some), snake has to feed, if imported animal from US for example where it would have been fed on live fronm hatchling, you have no option of feeding live or go through painstaking process of converting to frozen or fresh kill,some will also stopp feeding on frozen & you will need to feed them live to kick start them feeding again, I had garage full of racks of Rats/Mice & Multimamattes, feeding night would be around 150 rats a week, sometimes more if breeding season & females were piling the weight on.

Never ever left a live rat in beside a snake for more than 10 mins (whilst in the snake room) if it hasn't taken it within that time it's not going to, and a rat is very capable of killing a snake, or inflicting severe damage that you have no option but to put snake to sleep, not good if you've spent £3-4000 on a high end breeding male for example.

I produced a worlds first in 2012 (Royal/Ball Python) I called it the 'Corcra' ball, (Gaelic for purple) as it was a Lavender sort of colour , 3 gene animal, only downside to my hatching it was it was a female (not able to breed from it for 3-4yrs) had it been a male, at that time when Royal prices were high it would have been worth £10-12k, animal has since went on to produce clutches with other world firsts in....google Corcra Ball & it will take yoy to the World of Ball Pythons site, & give you bit of blurb on animal/breeder/first produced by (me) etc....I've now sold all snakes/equipmet off, only really strived to hit a worlds first, once done the shine sort of went off it, not to mention market strarted to crash around a year later, had probably between snakes & equipment around £,000 worth, built up over many many years with importing/exporting animals from US/Canada, so sold it all off and website (Fife Royals) closed down.

Amazing creatures to keep & handle....just don't trust the twats..ever !! ..LOL.

Edited October 26, 2017 by Johno2486

[beast 1,884]

I thought you could only feed live vertebrates with special veterinary permission in uk but I stand corrected. It's a fascinating subject. Some of the American breeders are producing stunning colour morphs . My mate sends me quite a few links when they go to expos and stuff.

 

I just googled corcra ball python what a stunning animal

 

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/files/morphs/the-corcra-ball/003.jpg

[C.green 3,229]

I know a fella whos into these he trusts them too much if you ask me he told me he put a live pet rat in there once and it done the snake fair play to the rat i say.

 

I can understand breeding them for colours and that but otherwise there abit boring to keep they don't actually seem to do much or is this not the case ?

[Johno2486 67]

I know a fella whos into these he trusts them too much if you ask me he told me he put a live pet rat in there once and it done the snake fair play to the rat i say.

 

I can understand breeding them for colours and that but otherwise there abit boring to keep they don't actually seem to do much or is this not the case ?

Yeah don't do a lot really..lol, ultimate goal in the breeding game is to try & get as many genes into the one animal as you can really, at one point around 6/7 years ago breeders were paying big money for some high end male morphs £30k+ per animal, there was serious money in it at one point, then lots of people thought they could jump on the bandwagon & produce stuff for a quick buck, started to undercuut each other price wise & it strarted to get a bit silly, some of the high end American breeders started to try & control the market (Banana Royal Python Morph) with releasing only females into the gene pool whilst holding onto the males, saying things like 'this animal only produces female clutches' etc, so anyone buying a female from them at big money could do nothing with her for 3-4 years (apart from feed her up) whilst all the time these guys were holding back the males and breeding them into other high end morphs (males can breed within 12-18 months) which then subsequently produced other world first high end animals, then when all the females got to around breeding age/weight, lo & behold the guys in the US suddenly released males onto the market, again for silly money but breeders bought them as they could pair them to their own mulit gene females they had at breeding weight, and all the poor sods that had bought the original big money females were suddenly ovetaken by everyone esle who picked up a breeding weight male, and obviously these American breeders were years ahead of everyone else as they had been breeding these high end males into other high end females and producing stuff to further breed on years ahead of everyone else, Britain will always be well behing what the US produce, & the US still produce some stunning high end multi gene animals, that command decent money, if thats what your into but the bottom has fallen out of it quite a bit over here, I got out at just the right time.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,676]

Two absolutely fascinating posts Johno

 

Love reading about other people's knowledge at that level

 

Well done to you on the breeding

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,676]

 

Snakes are my phobia

I'm actually terrified of them

Put my feet up on the coach when they come on telly lol

Killed a big f**k off green one in Kenya once and buried it with the digger, the c**t came up striking at the bucket

Gave me nightmares for weeks

Most likely a green mamba, I'd be shitting myself in that situation too! Evil buggers they are, unlike most snakes they'll actually chase you down if you piss them off enough and if you get bit by one out in the bush you're pretty much fecked.

 

It was actually bgd,

 

I was in a front loader shovel with my mate in a jcb , t pushing shrub and trees out of the way for a temporary landing strip out in the ulu living in tents

 

I Ievelled a huge ant hill, not something I'm proud of , but you need to remove obstacles

 

As I pushed over it, my mate beeped and beeped before pointing in my bucket , I reveresed and tipped assuming large wooden object or a burst pipe

 

The snake was really long , a bright green and cable thick

 

About 3 4 m long

 

I reveresed back at speed as my mate knows I'm terrified of them and he clammed it up in the front actor and cut it in half before snacking it repeatedly

 

I poured a bucket of spoil over it and it came out striking big at my front end ,

 

I smashed it with my bucket again before getting out and killing it with rocks

 

We told some locals about an hour later and their faces told me how stupid I'd been

 

The main lad said if that had got in the cab or underneath I'd have been in serious trouble lol

[BGD 6,434]

Getting up close and personal with a pissed off mamba fighting for it's life, now that's what I call a brush with death! I would have just carried on backing up and left your mate to deal with it

 

Beautiful snakes but fecking terrifying too. I got the sweats just being in the same room as a securely caged black mamba, definitely not an animal to feck about with.

[j j m 6,533]

​of course it would eat her

[beast 1,884]

My friend in America breeds children's pythons carpet pythons and Amazon tree boas. Also other stUfford but I can't remember names. I will ask him for some photos. I remember he was very pleased with some yellow amazon's he bred a few years ago.

 

I visited a small private zoo a few years ago and the owner got some kind of cobra out of its tank to show us. Believe me you never saw such a rapid but incredibly controlled escape by several people from a small room ?

[keepdiggin 9,559]

Snakes good way of getting rid of culls I suppose