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View Poll Results: Do you keep your snake sheds?

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  • I don't have a snake and wouldn't keep the sheds if I did

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  • I don't have a snake but would keep at least one shed if I did

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  • No, eww, that's gross dead skin!

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  • No but I don't mind people that do

    8 33.33%
  • Yes, only 1 or 2

    4 16.67%
  • yes, only 1 per snake

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  • yes, only a few

    2 8.33%
  • yes, I keep many but not all

    2 8.33%
  • yes, I keep all the good ones

    7 29.17%
  • Yes, it is not stated above (specify in comments)

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    I typically just trash them. We recently found someone that makes soap from snake sheds. They had all the ball python sheds they could need but didn't have many other species. I filled a gallon ziplock bag with corns sheds in under a 2 week period for them.
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    Re: Do you keep your snake sheds?

    I kept them all for years ( hundreds of them all in an old pillowcase !) but stopped a while back


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    A teacher friend of mine asked me to save one for her students so I keep a good one on hand, usually my dumerils boa since he sheds really nice and it has a cool pattern on it.

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    Re: Do you keep your snake sheds?

    i am having soap made with some of our sheds.
    and i was at a show saturday and someone was actually trying to sell stinky ole sheds. weird.
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    Re: Do you keep your snake sheds?

    Quote Originally Posted by SilentHill View Post
    i am having soap made with some of our sheds.
    and i was at a show saturday and someone was actually trying to sell stinky ole sheds. weird.
    Surprisingly there seems to be a market for snake sheds. People are selling them on Etsy for crafts and whatnot.

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    Re: Do you keep your snake sheds?

    I kept Adelita's first shed (it was darn-near perfect), but probably won't be keeping any others. Maybe a really nice shed when she reaches near-terminal size. I have an idea in my head of getting her first shed and an adult shed framed together for a cool comparison, but I'm not quite sure it that could be done.

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    I have a complete 8.5' shed from my scrub python that I have hung up.
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    I keep the good ones. The bigger the better. The local schools get most of them.

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    I keep a lot of the good ones, and any large pieces from bad ones.

    Gives me a good supply of material so that I can pass them around when doing a presentation with the snakes

    Often I'll do a draw for one of the intact sheds at the end. The kids love that
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