Snake of the Day 06-13-13

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

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The first Scaleless corn of the season pipped its egg yesterDAY.  This Scaleless Anery is the product of breeding a male and female Scaleless Anery together.  The chronology of the pix is backward.  He/she first came out upside down (breach?) and remained like in that position for over six hours.  Then, went back in and came out in the orientation we’re accustomed to seeing.  Kinda icky seeing stuff under the skin, eh?  The VISIBLE snake!  Since being scale-less does not mean they are devoid of scales, you can see the random and fragmental scale clusters here and there.  Most Scaleless Corn mutants have fully-scaled bellies. I’ll share photos of him/her when he/she’s completely out.  We will not only offer a few Scaleless corn mutants this summer, but there will be many regular corns het for Scaleless & other color mutations.  BTW, the top single cut in the egg is my sloppy surgical work.  I cut the eggs two DAYs before their anticipated hatch date, but as they usually do, he/she decided my cut wasn’t good enough.