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    "PM Boots For Custom Title" CrazyHedgehog's Avatar
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    Question Garter x Corn???

    OK, so a guy called round tonight to buy a dozen mice to start his own breeding for reptile feed and we obviously got talking about snakes.
    he tells me a friend of his has bred a corn to a garter??
    I start telling him that I don't believe that these species are compatible and that I was pretty sure he was mistaken.
    He said, he thought so too, until he saw the offspring... and that the guy used an adult male garter but a small female corn that had only just reached breeding age.

    I didn't like to be rude, but was pretty sure that this was bull ****....however, I am no expert please enlighten me,
    am I right -pure Bull (or he was mistaken),
    or have I lived in a bubble and never heard of this?
    Inge
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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Your bubble is fine and you are right in calling a B.S. alert.
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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Don't corns lay eggs? I'm not for sure but I'd still call B.S. on it too

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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Complete BS but designer striped corns do look like garters!

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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    I used to quickly dismiss these crazy tails as BS to. Most of them are, but those hybrid fanatics have crossed some pretty crazy stuff; ball pythons and Burmese pythons, kings/corns, anacondas and boa constrictors. This would be the first time that I"ve heard of a oviparous and viviparous cross but I can't say I follow the hybrid scene that closely.

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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    thanks guys!
    Inge
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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Never happened. Some garter species can't even breed with other garter species let alone an egg laying corn.

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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    I remember reading about a Natrix x Thamnophis cross that ended in dead but clearly fertilized eggs.

    "Pics or it didn't happen" still applies.

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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Yes, I quizzed him later throwing in the species genetic difference, let alone the viviparous vs oviparous , he is adamant.
    I wonder if the female had retained sperm.??
    he said the offspring did not live the year out.

    so.... I have a female corn, coming to breeding age.....has been solitary since a hatch ling....hhhmmm, in the name of science, throw a spare male in with her?
    Inge
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    Re: Garter x Corn???

    Waste of time

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