Young males breeding successfully.... A closer look.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

There have been a few threads over the years that discuss breeding young males. The point of this thread is to examine the topic in greater detail.

A good start would be for those with direct experience to speak up... Here are some questions... Please try to answer all of these questions regarding your experience before commenting. I am looking for first hand experience here... If everyone would go through and answer each question this thread would be very helpful to a whole lot of people including me!

1.) how old was your male?
2.) how much did he weigh?
3.) how many females did you attempt to breed him to that season?
4.) what were the approximate weights of the girls you bred him with?
5.) what was the end result with each female you paired him with?
6.) did you have any problems with the male during or after the breeding rotations?
7.) what comments would you like to contribute?

Thanks....

[sho220]

I'm just a small timer with only a few clutches under my belt, but I've had no luck with yearling males. Sometimes they can't figure it out, sometimes they do, but still haven't gotten the job done for me. I don't have the data with me, but I'll repost tomorrow and answer the questions above. Should be an interesting thread if you can get some data.

[chago11]

1.) how old was your male?My male was 6 months old
2.) how much did he weigh?he was at 340 grams
3.) how many females did you attempt to breed him to that season?4
4.) what were the approximate weights of the girls you bred him with?2900 grams, 2500 grams, 1800 grams, 1400 grams
5.) what was the end result with each female you paired him with?3 split clutches
6.) did you have any problems with the male during or after the breeding rotations? I stop breeding him because he was off food and started losing weight

[Mike Cavanaugh]

5.) what was the end result with each female you paired him with?3 split clutches

what do you mean by split clutches?

[Annarose15]

1.) how old was your male? 7 months
2.) how much did he weigh? 700g
3.) how many females did you attempt to breed him to that season? 2
4.) what were the approximate weights of the girls you bred him with? 2400g (proven) and 1200g (virgin)
5.) what was the end result with each female you paired him with? 2 clutches, 8 total eggs (5 and 3), all were viable and hatched healthy babies
6.) did you have any problems with the male during or after the breeding rotations? none
7.) what comments would you like to contribute? He went off feed from Nov to March, but only dropped 20g. 5 months after resuming feeding, he is over 1000g and doesn't miss a meal.

[RichsBallPythons]

I bred 3 young males last year Smallest being 200g that was a pinstripe male. He knocked up one female at 2200 before hitting 300g. Hes a July 2010 hatch and now about 600g. None of the small males went off feed and bred very well 2 females each.

I have a male Fire i just acquired 2 weeks ago and hes a 2011 about 200g and has plugs. No girls for him yet so he may sit unless i find something.

Almost any mlae that is small I have and has plugs will breed for me. But since i breed 2 males per female the older one usually does the job as i assume they are releasing more sperm and blocking the lil guys. But ive had it other ways as well so not sure.

[purplemuffin]

what do you mean by split clutches?

Split clutches means two bps fathered the clutch. So let's say you breed a pastel male and a spider male to a normal female and she lays both pastel and spider babies!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Split clutches means two bps fathered the clutch. So let's say you breed a pastel male and a spider male to a normal female and she lays both pastel and spider babies!

Well, I guess that adds another question that needs to be answered then...

8.) Did you only pair the female with the young male or were other males involved?

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Please keep this thread alive!

[PitOnTheProwl]

Good information here. please post more