One HUGE FREAKIN Corn!

[BWSmith]

This one came in Memorial Day on rescue. I finally got around to measure it. 71 inches!!!! I need to sex and weigh it. Too bad Under my permits for Cornsnakes I cannot breed them.

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[snakemann87]

HOLY LORD I'm guessin it will be a male from the size. But I'm confused by you saying under your permits you cant breed him/her??
Please explain, is it a law??

[BWSmith]

In Georgia, Cornsnakes are a native nonvenomous species, thus protected. You cannot posess, sell, buy, or breed any native nonvenomous (Cornsnakes, Black Rats, Garter Snakes, PineSnakes, Chain Kings etc). However, I have my Exhibition Permits from DNR that allow me to keep 2 of each nonvenomous species for educational purposes. But if I bred them, I would have more than 2. :)

[unBOAlievable]

What a beauty,
Georgia laws suck sometimes but I have a whole stash of em in TN. God I love living on the TN. GA. line.

[Bryce Masuk]

Wow almost 6 feet long if only you could find another huge one if you but a regular sized one it would get raped Lol

[Auddi01]

mine is an even 5 foot 5 inches, and i tohught he was huge

[Vanan]

Looks like male to me. I'm 99.99% positive.

Nice colours too!

[Invictus]

I have a 6 foot corn as well. And here I thought he was a freak. Looks like my Morpheus isn't the only one. :)

Those laws are absolutely bloody stupid. I can't even begin to imagine my life without my corns, and I've only had them for a few months.

[BoidKeeper]

It's that same up in Canada. You're not allowd to keep anything native to the province you're in. Makes sence in a way.
Trevor

[Blazin]

Awesome! I would get him to a breeder outside of Georgia!

[drewlowe]

They have laws like that all over. Here in missouri we can keep up to 5 native species without any problems. But if you go over that then you have to get a permit which cost 50 dollars a year. and they have to come to your house and inspect the way the conditions are.

If you keep venomous or snakes over 8 feet your supposed to get a permit , for 150 dollars and they have to inspect your house.

That is one big corn. LOL

[Invictus]

Originally posted by BoidKeeper
It's that same up in Canada. You're not allowd to keep anything native to the province you're in. Makes sence in a way.
Trevor

Makes no sense to me. And I don't think it's that way in every province... I've known a lot of people who have kept red-sided garters here in Alberta, and those most certainly are native to Alberta. I should look into that further though. It may explain why the Western Hognose is not legal to keep in Alberta.

[gonesnakee]

Invictus, yes we have the same laws in most provinces & Alberta's are just about the toughest. The Western Hognose is considered Native & thats the exact reason that they are illegal here. As far as one specimen of a native species go, they ("the Man") don't seem to care too much. They are more worried about people exploiting the native species for profit by collecting specimens in the wild, thus we have laws to prevent this from happening. Unfortunately this stops breeding them also because they will have people lying about "producing them" when they are actually just "stealing them" from the wild & selling them for profit. Laws suck, but unfortunately so do people. Mark I.

[Invictus]

Well if such is the case, what's the point of field herping? I'd have to go to Saskatchewan and catch something that's non-native to Alberta if I wanted to keep it. Silliness, man!

[Lisa]

Great looking corn. If you were to breed him I wouldn't complain if you sent the babies/eggs to me :)


Originally posted by Invictus
Well if such is the case, what's the point of field herping? I'd have to go to Saskatchewan and catch something that's non-native to Alberta if I wanted to keep it. Silliness, man!

There's more to field herping then grabbing wild snakes and keeping them. Why do people catch and release fish? There's the thrill of the hunt, seeing the species in it's natural habitat and just being out with nature seeing her sights and smells. Heck, the exercise is probably good for you too.

Herping is more then just aquiring snakes.

[Mike177]

WOW thats one HUGE CORN!! nice find

[BWSmith]

Ya never know what is coming in on rescue. He will be a nice edition to educational programs.

[Invictus]

Originally posted by Lisa
Herping is more then just aquiring snakes.

Yeah, I know. I'm just still bitter because everyone is posting pictures of their hoggies and I'm not allowed to have one. :)

[BWSmith]

The sad part that he was kept in about a 20 Gal aquarium at that size!

[snkmn]

wow that is one huge freakin' corn. i live in california three is no law on not breeding and keeping snakes native to the state. i have know peopple that catch gopher snakes, kingsnakes, garter snakes. oops sorry i was rambleing. very nice corn anyway cangrats.

[reverendsterlin]

snkmn, California has several laws concerning native species capture, possession, and breeding(what happens to neonates when breeding takes you over Cal. native limits). Check your facts.

[snkmn]

oh, ok i guess that i was wrong i will definetly read up on all of that befor i breed, catch or keep any native species to california. thanks reverendsterlin

[Bencb3]

can i breed them in south carolina? im plannin on gettin a snow corn from someone and well, i wanna breed it when it comes to age, nice snake btw