Not a garter snake but very cool!!!

[drache]

thanks so much Lori
they're really cool pictures
now I wonder where I can get some really small eggs . . .

[Stefan-A]

thanks so much Lori
they're really cool pictures
now I wonder where I can get some really small eggs . . .

Start keeping finches, geckos (Hemidactylus species are usually prolific breeders) or anoles.

[enigma200316]

So, how did it get through the shell? The specialized egg-eating species usually break the shell and regurgitate it, but are Pantherophis species able to do the same?[/quote]

I don't know but its got like five in it already and working on the sixth
and I thought even the egg-eating species ate one at a time???

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, as far as I can tell, they do only eat one at a time. If it can't break those shells, it's going to have one hell of a problem in a few days.

[enigma200316]

Yeah, as far as I can tell, they do only eat one at a time. If it can't break those shells, it's going to have one hell of a problem in a few days.

hahaha, yeah tell me about it......I'm thinking it will just squeeze them to break'em or the digestion process will open them up......not really sure either way, but just a thought really........

[Lori P]

I would think a snake's digestive enzymes could eat thru the shell? After all, what is a shell but mostly calcium, right... or maybe the enzymes soften to shell to where it crackles apart? An egg isn't hard to break on its side...

I've left some fresh eggs in with my ball python, Fluffy, and she has done nothing but use them as head rests... lol. I was thinking maybe she'd go for them. She likes baby chicks (no, not mine, lol I buy her frozen!! And that's still hard, I do love my chickens...) Maybe a softer shelled egg like the finches that Stephan mentioned...

:-)

[lampy]

Darn it wish we in the uk had loads of wild snakes to come accross! although did see an article in a paper were a grass snake (named hissing sid!) was busy emptying some one goldfish pond of its goldfish!

[Lulu Bennett]

wow lori they are some cool pics you have there

[Gijs & Sabine]

Those are geat pictures, Lori !! Thanks for sharing
If you have more pics like this ........

[adamanteus]

Excellent photos, Lori!