Tim Gebherd over at Vivid Reptiles gives you the animal # and his paperwork came with a receipt and a pretty detailed caresheet that has some interesting insight not mentioned in most care sheets I found online. For example with my Baird's Rat Snakes he suggests keeping them at 80-100% humidity while still at hatchling size as they have a habit of getting dried out. This is an interesting wrinkle in their husbandry but when you see the pictures of where his original stock are from and think about the habitat it makes sense that a small snake would regularly be in much higher humidity than your average "desert" species.

Other breeders have not really sent me anything other than a receipt along with the shipment. But to be honest this doesn't bother me so much because selling reptiles its more about pre-sale support and probably the first 48 hours you have the animal. Other than that you really are on your own in terms of making sure you are taking care of your new pet and making sure you are doing everything right. Tim is in Texas and I'm in Ohio there isn't really a lot he can do for me other than say here are these 2014 snakes, here's how you keep it alive and then subsequently getting the snakes to me alive and uninjured.

With a snake like a ball python where the species is so much more popular that there are entire forums, books and web pages dedicated to them there really shouldn't be a need for a care sheet along with the snake. With my Baird's the only resources available are some of the most basic care sheets I've seen most which are copy pasted from one another and some that in the middle completely switch the species they are talking about along with a few that completely contradict one another. They are briefly mentioned in the Corn Snakes and Ratsnakes book but that's it.