Breeding - Planning for Success
Hey BP.net,
Background info: I am a new BP owner with the hopes of one day breeding for the puspose of building my own collection, educating myslef and making a little money in the process if possible. I am a firm believer in researching prior as opposed to during and am a heavy planner especially when bringing new life into the world and thus is the reason for this post.
It only makes sense that in order to be successful you need to plan ahead especially when one intends to raise hatchlings for breeding purposes.
1) What snake combinations are recommended for the 'beginner' breeder keeping in mind budget and purchasing interest. Also, what are the outcomes of these combinations. Age/Weight/Maturity before a male or female snake is adequate to breed? etc...
2) In terms of preparing for breeding what are the neccesarry tools/equipment that are required to ensure that proper care is taken with the eggs and to ensure successful hatchlings. I have seen mutiple variations of store bought and homemade incubator systems, breeding rooms etc.
3) The breeding process - any good links or overviews outling the step by step breeding process?
Utimately I am just in search of any suggestions that any proven breeders out there can give to a hopeful beginner.
Qusetions/Comments welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Re: Breeding - Planning for Success
1. As for the best combinations for beginners there really is no such thing. The best combinations are what your breeding goals are. Some people may want to breed pies while others may want to end up with a queen bee. Decide what your goal in breeding is. 700 grams is recommended at least for a male and females should be close to 1500. Normally a year to two years for males while females are two to three.
2. The type of incubator is up to you as well. It depends on how many snakes you plan on breeding and what your budget is. If you are only going to only breed one or two snakes a store bought one is fine. If you are breeding lots of snakes a store bought one will be expensive. You could make one out of a old freezer for much cheaper.
3. http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/page.php?id=011
Hopefully this helps some.
Re: Breeding - Planning for Success
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Originally Posted by
RemysBalls
1. As for the best combinations for beginners there really is no such thing. The best combinations are what your breeding goals are. Some people may want to breed pies while others may want to end up with a queen bee. Decide what your goal in breeding is. 700 grams is recommended at least for a male and females should be close to 1500. Normally a year to two years for males while females are two to three.
2. The type of incubator is up to you as well. It depends on how many snakes you plan on breeding and what your budget is. If you are only going to only breed one or two snakes a store bought one is fine. If you are breeding lots of snakes a store bought one will be expensive. You could make one out of a old freezer for much cheaper.
3.
http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/page.php?id=011
Hopefully this helps some.
Hey Remy - great link! That is exactly what I was looking for.
In terms of what I want to get out of the breeding process I really have to do my research still. I really like the Lesser Platinums and Pinstripes and Albino's are starting to grow on me a bit too. I had yet to look into what I could end up with if I were to start my collection with some if these. There are other variations that I love, but are just not realistic to be able to purchase (right now). I am looking at getting a female in the next 3 months or so, hopefully I will have a better idea of what route to take by then.
I have normal male right now, so once he is of adequate age/size I may give him a chance to prove his stuff providing I have a good female to pari him with. In the process of refinishing my basement right now so it is giving me the opportunity to create a nice space for my reptiles and other assorted aquariums.
Re: Breeding - Planning for Success
These are a few of my suggestions. Find a morphs color that you like and if it is something like the lesser which is a codom find a morph with a pattern that you like and if possible make it a recessive gene one. It is pretty easy to produce codom to codom or codom to dom or dom to dom morphs. I would suggest settign a goal of making a combo morph that includes a recessive gene. A lesser clown would be awesome. In the long wrong I think there is much more pride and gratification making combo morphs that have recessive genes in them. They do take more planning but the payoff is so worth it.
