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I am very pleased to announce that the pair above has proven out and I have a fertile clutch from them in my incubator. This clutch is doing very well and should hatch soon! The HCQ Tigers are some of the best Tiger Carpets out there and I am hoping to make them even better with this pairing. While the female is not a Tiger, she is very striped and what I hope to do is make this line even more high contrast! Wish me luck on this clutch. Very few if any tigers from this pairing will be made available if I am lucky enough to get a hatch.

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This pairing has resulted in a viable clutch of eggs! These are Sorong Chondropythons that I got from Rico Walder and raised from babies. This particular line of Green Tree Pythons are known to be very easy going and I am able to get my adults out and hold them whenever I want to and they never bite. I will only sell babies from this pairing to experienced snake keepers.

This was a welcome site!

This banded Albino Ball is 50% possible het for Snow. She was bred to this genetic Tiger that is a 100% Het for albino and 66% het for Snow:

The resulting offspring from this pair of snakes are some of the nicest Tigers and Albino Tigers you will ever see, and they are possible hets for snow!

My Yellowbellies have also proven to be viable breeders and I was greeted with the following site this morning! I will get Yellowbellies and Ivory Balls from this clutch!

Colubrids are also laying eggs!

This is an Albino Brooks Type Kingsnake that was bred to another Albino Brooks that is het for snow. If the eggs hatch all the babies will be Albinos and possible hets for Snow!

Pictured above is a het Calico that was bred by a male Calico. This is going to be a great year for Calico Cow Suckers!!

It was also nice to get this nice clutch of albino whitesided black rat eggs. This female was bred to a Calico Cow Sucker so the resulting babies will have the potential to produce several new morphs.

2008 has also been a great year to gather herpetological baseline data here in Kentucky! Here is one of the snakes Phil Peak and I discovered earlier this year:

Phil and I were also fortunate enough to find one of the rarest snakes in Kentucky this Spring. This snake is not only rare in Kentucky, but throughout much of its range outside of here as well. This snake has the smallest known range of any snake in The Commonwealth with only one known population with a mere handful of sightings. This is The Mississippi Green Water Snake, a species we thought we may not ever encounter!

In closing I will post one final shot:

This is a Copperhead that Phil and I discovered while conducting herpetological surveys here in Kentucky. I thought the picture was pretty neat. Conducting meaningful herp surveys is only becoming more and more difficult to do with the shape that our economy is in these days. I use monies that I get from the sales of my exotic snakes to help fund my conservation efforts here in Kentucky. When you buy a snake from me you not only help to pay for my rats, but you also are helping to conserve native herp populations. I am very grateful and once again want to thank everyone who helps and supports my efforts.  Will

I am very excited about how 2008 is shaping up. This has been a tough breeding season for me and I have been forced to put all of my experience to the test in order to get any clutches at all. I have had many failures so far but some great things have also happened. The photo above is something I did not expect or intend but I am stoked none the less. This is a Tiger breeding a Tiger Jaguar female. I wanted to wait on this girl but she ovulated and I chose to put several males with her. This one in the photo is the only one that showed any interest and several breedings have taken place now. My fingers are crossed for the resulting super tiger jaguar babies and what ever else results...if I am able to get a hatch. Stay Tuned!

     I am very pleased to announce that the pair above has proven out and I have a fertile clutch from them in my incubator. The HCQ Tigers are some of the best Tiger Carpets out there and I am hoping to make them even better with this pairing. While the female is not a Tiger, she is very striped and what I hope to do is make this line even more high contrast! Wish me luck on this clutch. Very few if any tigers from this pairing will be made available if I am lucky enough to get a hatch.

I have also gotten eggs from two Jungle Jaguar pairings so far including the pair pictured above. I am very pleased to be in a position to offer Jungle Jaguars this season. One of my clutches is due to hatch in 30 days and the eggs look great. The clutch due in 30 days is the result of a striped Jag bred to a jungle. The babies will be great! The pair pictured above is also interesting in that the female Jag is very banded and the result from my male Jungle should prove interesting.

Colubrids are also breeding here. Above is a photo showing my male albino brooks King het for snow breeding an albino female. The resulting babies will all be albinos that are possible het snow. I will have morph rat snake updates later!

Finally, I have to say that Spring is here. Phil Peak and I have been busy. We continue to struggle to help conserve native snakes, but we had a great day here a while back when we put our theories to the test and proved them to be true. Behold a Kentucky Hoop Snake!

  At this time I would like to thank all of you who support my efforts. Without your help and support I would fail. Profits that I make from exotic captive bred snake sales are used to advance local conservation efforts here in my home State of Kentucky. I appreciate the continued support. If you are interested in conserving your local snakes Phil Peak and I have authored a book that will help you in your efforts. The link to how to buy this cheap and useful book is in the update posted below and all monies made from sales go back into our conservation projects.

Also, I have many Carpet Python, Ball Python, Rainbow Boa, and Mutant Rat Snake clutches that are in the works that will be posted up in a future update. Please check back and e-mail me with any questions. Thanks!! Will Bird