[vanderkm]

Will take a few minutes over the holidays to add a note about myself here and say 'Greetings' to the fellow Canadians on this forum - so far looking like the place to chat about Corns!!

I am a resident of Regina, Saskatchewan and have been here for just about 2 years now. We were in Alberta for 15 years prior to that. I have had a variety of snake species (and a few lizards) over the years, but our move to Saskatchwan forced us to give up our boas and pythons and focus on colubrids. I currently breed Honduran milksnakes (tangerine, ghost and albino) and corns - with a focus here on creamsicles and related emoryi/corn intergades (or hybrids - depending on your interpretation of the taxonomy!!)

I keep about 10 adult hondurans and 12-15 adult corns and produce a few clutches of each a year. My focus in breeding emroyi/corns is to develop color varieties from corns that have a more typical emoryi/corn appearance - increased saddle number, reduced saddle border, reduced side pattern and reduction in the red tones with enhanced yellow and orange. I like the heavy body and fast growth rate that emoryi corns have as well as the typical color.

I am currently working with caramel in my emoryi/corn lines and have outcrossed to pure emoryi to retain the strong emoryi look. I was fortunate to hatch cinnamons (hypo A), anery, snow and ghost emoryi corns this year. Several of these have gone to other breeders and I have kept the ghosts and some snows. I am very interested in how the expression of yellow in the snows and ghosts will appear - while overall emoryi corns seem to have enhanced yellow, it may be that they do not have the yellow neck and chin markings that appear on corns as they mature.

I look forward to participating here more in the future - very nice to have a hybrid forum to discuss these guys.


mary v.