The Poultry Keeper

jmarshall08 · Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 16 Location: solihull

Hi,

Anybody have snakes? I have a Ball Python approx 18mths old.

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2671 Location: South Cumbria

Kitsune has some though I am not sure what, I love them but OH freaks out at them and frogs and toads Sad

raptor · Joined: 27 Sep 2008 Posts: 2 Location: newcastle

i had a corn snake but just recently lost her due to a growth inside her she was only 7yrs old. She loved a luke warm shallow bath, and liked lying on our front room window sill.

But i cant remember how many times i would let her out and start watching telly and forget about her and go to bed, luckily she would just go back in her self, probably to her heat mat.

i could watch her for ages the way snakes move is fascinating.

Chris Kurzfeld · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1712 Location: Carmarthenshire

I love snakes but think OH would leave home if I brought one in the house Laughing

If we ever go anywhere were I get a chance to hold on he makes sure he is a few feet away - yet he will happily hold a taratula whist i watch a quivering wreck Shocked

. Our eldest son had American garter snakes when he was a teenager - I loved them but they had to stay in his bedroom!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7424 Location: isle of lewis

oh would leave home as well ,he hated rats and i brought home a pet one and he put up with it ,but he really does draw the lines at snakes ,i've held a few Wink

i did have an iganna but it was only because the person who owned it was going to kill it if somebody didn't take it ,i must admit it was funny to watch and used to escape and end up on the pillow when oh used to sleep in the day Embarassed

,it took quite a lot of looking after though and needed knowledge are snakes the same

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1410 Location: Manchester

I've got 3 corn snakes and an Irian Jaya carpet python at the moment, all three corn snakes are rescues, one was found under the chicken coop about 2 years ago, one was brought to me by some local kids who found it in the road and the other was given by a girl at uni who was moving and couldn't take it with her.

The Irian Jaya was a present to myself and he's beautiful Smile

I've also got two bearded dragons who are also rescues.

MaisytheDobe · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

How big does the Irian Jaya Carpet Python grow?

Elly · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 356 Location: Norfolk

We have 2 corn snakes, one of which is 'pink' and I would love a royal python Smile

Also have a leopard gecko lizard Cool

Keep smilin
Elly

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1410 Location: Manchester

The Irian Jaya is smaller than most of the other carpet pythons and because mines male he'll only grow to about 5ft

My first large snake was a jungle carpet python female, she was about 7ft and really friendly

mojo · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

any one who loves snakes should come live here..........they are common ..........and some of the western whip snakes grow over 2 metres long i am told...............me i dont go looking but in the summer they sunbathe on the black tarmac roads

MaisytheDobe · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

Well I like them at a distance Laughing

Kitsune,

Thanks for the info, its nice to now not all pythons grow really really big. At least he won't outgrow your home like some do. There is quite a large lady python at the place next to Stapley Water gardens, she requires a home the size of a small room Shocked

Matildanz · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:06 am Post subject:

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1410 Location: Manchester

Tuataras are fantastic Smile

I'll get some pictures up later, I've got to break the camera out to take pictures of the girls anyway.

I used to work in reptile rescue and we had a 19ft reticulated python, she was an amazing snake and (thankfully) tame. I have a range of humerus stories about my time at that place, lol

That retic eventually get a new home on the Algarve along with many of our unhomable iguanas. I should go out and visit them Smile

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1410 Location: Manchester

Matildanz · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

Thanks Vikki, very cool!