The 2009 season is going well fo us so fa, with 7 good clutches on the gound and one supise clutch from a female that we bred last year - though the female in question has not yet to date produced a fertile clutch during the years that we've had her. While we are waiting for the eggs to hatch, we have begun planning out the pairings for the 2010 season. And while it may seem far too early, sorting out which females we want to breed next year is a difficult task at times, simply because of the high number of females that will be ready and the limited space we have available to incubate eggs and later, to house hatchlings until they are sold. So, we will use this time to scrutinize our projects and plot out prospective pairings accordingly.

We also like to have a list of back-up pairings in the event that our first choices don't work out because of one reason or another. This happened a few times during the 2008 season, when a couple of snakes pulled a gender switch on us a few males showed no interest in the females we'd intended on pairing them with, or the female (or male) didn't grow as much as we'd anticipated during the previous year. Scrambling for alternate mates at the last minute can be very stressful, which is why we actively consider alternate males for each female.

The bulk of our plans for the 2009 season will revolve around a few long term projects we have been working towards for several years now. Though we will also be conducting a few breeding trials to help determine genotype of a few of our older snakes. These will be for those snakes whose clutches in 2008 either; did not survive to hatch, or the results did not conclusively prove what morph the snake in question could be classified as. All future pairings are, as usual, subject to change depending on last minute purchases, breeding loans, or project redirections at any time.

As our younger breeders mature over coming years, we look to continue to work with many different cornsnake morphs such as bloodreds (diffused), lavenders, caramels, charcoals, Aztecs and zig-zags, hypos, motleys, stripes, lavas, sunkisseds, and various combinations of two or more of those traits in addition to anerys, amels, charcoals, and snows. And, while they are not the main focus of our colonies, we are planning to work with a few different types of ratsnakes, tri-colored kingsnakes, milksnakes, and Kenyan Sand Boas as well.

You will find links to all of our past, current, and future projects listed below.

The information on this page was last updated on 07-05-09.