Nelson’s Milksnakes can grow to be longer than 3 feet, with a slender body. It also comes in many different color morphs. It has pale bands of yellowish white that are flanked by wide and short black bands and broad red bands. Nelson’s Milksnake is one of the most colorful and popular of the subspecies. Their yellow bands have black banding on either side against a background of red. Mexican MilksnakeĪdults seldom grow to be longer than 30 inches and are brightly banded. The Louisiana Milk rarely has yellow banding, and its snout can vary from solid black to white with reddish blotches. It is a slender snake, with the red bands being about twice as wide as the black and white bands. The Louisiana Milk is on the small side, growing to reach 2 feet in length at most. Another good subspecies for beginners, the Honduran Milk is hardy, but can be nervous, so watch out for bites. It’s a brightly colored snake with wide bandings in red, black, and orange-yellow. It grows to be 4 to 5 feet in length with a stout, thick body. The Honduran Milksnake is one of the most popular Milksnake subspecies. The Eastern milk is easy to care for and is great for beginners. Most snakes of this species have a brown arrowhead or spearpoint pattern on top of their head, similar to a cornsnake. It takes on a gray and reddish brown coloring with a spotted pattern. This snake is quite common in the United States and can grow from 2 to 4 feet in length.
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Even adults of this variety may only be able to eat pinky mice when full grown. The coloring is usually red, black, and yellowish white with very narrow banding. Central Plains MilksnakeĪ smaller species of Milksnake, the Central Plains Milksnake grows to be just 2 feet long at most. Adults of this variety can be nervous, so take care when first picking one up. Its color gradually changes, becoming covered with dark pigments until it has turned a blackish brown or entirely black. As a hatchling, it is either red, black, and white, or yellow in color. The Black Milksnake is a large variety, growing to about 4 to 6 feet in length. This is a nonvenomous, typically docile species that is perfect for beginners. Here are several of the most easily found and popular varieties of Milksnake. Today there are more than two-dozen different subspecies of Milksnake only about ten to fifteen different subspecies are readily available from breeders and dealers as captive-bred specimens. Of course this isn’t true, it’s barely believable, but the name stuck. Legend has it that the snakes would slither into barns at night, curl around the legs of milk cows, and sup on their milk straight from the udder. The infertile eggs were all given to various other snakes as snacks.Milksnakes are a subspecies of the Kingsnake. Combined with her first clutch, that brings her total number of fertile eggs for the year to 16. She laid a total of 9 eggs now, 5 of which are fertile and will be incubated. If there was any sign of her struggling or an egg being stuck, she would have gone to our exotic vet immediately.Ĭinny is doing fine, she's thin but alert and energetic. We had no logical reason to think she wouldn't, she's a seasoned breeder in her prime, but bad things happen sometimes. We checked her once a day to make sure the eggs were at least moving down and she did eventually end up getting them all out on her own. While a snake ideally lays the entire clutch in a day, delayed laying can sometimes be normal or can also signal egg binding, which can easily be fatal. Over the next week she proceeded to lay 1-4 eggs every day or two. We immediately set up her cage to give as many lay spots as possible and kept the room she's in quiet and dark. Unfortunately, infertile eggs can be harder for them to pass than fully formed eggs. Cinny has a history of double clutching but didn't give us any visual reason to suspect it this year until she laid that first infertile egg. Sometimes this is a result of the female having extra weight on her, more bodily resources can trigger additional egg production because that is their natural primary goal. We have never paired our snakes a second time in a year but snakes can easily retain sperm and some species/individuals are very prone to producing a second or even third clutch in a year without additional mating. Sure enough, more eggs in there.ĭouble clutching is something that can cause some opinionated debates but it often comes from a lack of understanding. A week ago, we found an infertile egg sitting in her enclosure and immediately checked her.
Our 7 year old Honduran milksnake, Cineris, laid her clutch of eggs in May and has been recovering well ever since. It's been a bit of a stressful week for us but I am happy to say we're out the other side and everything is fine.
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