red tail boa - snake skin for limbs ?

[BradLantz]

If I acquire a free 3 1/2 ' red tail boa ...... would he be good to use for snake skins for limbs?

I did a search on boa ..... nothing about using them for snake skins that I could find?

looks like this


 

[Winterhawk1960]

I'm a thinkin'.......that would look REAL NICE on a bow.

Winterhawk1960

[robtattoo]

42" isn't going to cover much unless you can find another somewhere  :D

Boa & python sking is also very thick. 6 or 7 times thicker than rattler skin.

[BradLantz]

they grow quick - a few months of feeding him and he'd be 4' I imagine

he's ultra agressive, extremely bite happy - he's being given away and nobody wants him

skin is all he's good for with the habitual biting, and once he's a 9' snake? he'll be very dangerous .....

[vermonster13]

Would look good on a quiver.

[robtattoo]

Originally posted by BradLantz:
they grow quick - a few months of feeding him and he'd be 4' I imagine

he's ultra agressive, extremely bite happy - he's being given away and nobody wants him

skin is all he's good for with the habitual biting, and once he's a 9' snake? he'll be very dangerous .....

Sorry, I didn't realise he was still alive. As a herpetologist myself, I would say find someone who actually knows how to handle & deal with an aggressive, juvenile Boa & let them take it. Killing it just to pretty up your bow would be a real shame.
All Boas & Python species are inherrently aggressive as juveniles. With careful & constant handling it WILL tame down as it grows up. A 4' Boa still perceives you as a treat. A 7' Boa doesn't.
Before we came here I had a beautiful old Queensland Carpet Python. 13' long & solid, powerhouse muscle. Unfortunately it died before I could get it re-homed (athough at 26 years old, it wasn't unexpected) I'd had it since it was about 6' & highly aggressive. By 8' it was as tame as a kitten.
Persevere with the Red-Tail & it may surprise you how docile it'll become. It's worth more as a snake than as a bow covering.

Sorry, but just my honest opinion.

[vermonster13]

Rob has it right IMO.

[BradLantz]

robtattoo

I don't have a deep love for snakes, but I have a bit of affinity for them since my daughter had her snake. I'm going off advice from my cousin as far as the agressiveness this one shows etc. He said snakes this agressive always ends up as skins, and he does the big exotic shows in Daytona Beach every year.

He's not wanted by the people that have him, that much is clear.