Breeding for size?

Ever heard of anyone breeding for a smaller or larger BP? Just curious.


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Originally Posted by Jbabycsx

Ever heard of anyone breeding for a smaller or larger BP? Just curious.


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I’m a little confused on what your trying to ask,

I’m reading it as breeding to obtain a larger BP or breeding to obtain a smaller like mini BP if so I haven’t heard if it.

Breeding in general I’ve always kept my male/female BP size and weight close to same.


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I'd love to see it. The morphs that people breed for are beautiful, but imagine a snake 5-6 foot BP! A calm and lazy disposition in a larger package, that would be the bees-knees!

There are 6' females at 4.5kg out there, have a search on YouTube:-) that's as big as my 5yr old male boa, can't imagine a ball that size in person.

https://youtu.be/r0rHquL5C2M

Volta localities are considered "giant" can be found every now and then, after that it's all about genetic not all animals are designed to be 3000 or 4000 grams, I have 1st, 2nd and now 3 generations of pied and het pieds traced back to my founder female (which was over 4000 grams) that consistently reach those sizes and lay 8 to 12 eggs clutches without issue, producing babies that are 90/95 grams out of the egg.

I was thinking more like people that breed for a “mini” BP. They do it for pigs, dogs and everything else.


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Originally Posted by Jbabycsx

I was thinking more like people that breed for a “mini” BP. They do it for pigs, dogs and everything else.


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I haven’t heard of it being possible, doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I mean a Mini Designer Morph concept would be cool but at what cost. I understand the question your originally posted now.


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Originally Posted by Jbabycsx

I was thinking more like people that breed for a “mini” BP. They do it for pigs, dogs and everything else.


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Economically doing so would make no sense for a BP breeder, not like BP are big to start with (if you want small just get a male) breeding for small size in BP would mean small animals, small clutches (not like the clutches are big already 6 eggs on average), small babies.

Now if you want small there are dwarf and super dwarf retics and dwarf boas and dwarf burms but does went from very large to perfect size for a keeper and breeding wise they were already producing large amount of eggs to start with.

I am personally breeding for bigger and healthier. As well as temperament. I have a 4,000 gram spider ball python. She’s definitely at least 5 feet long. Absolutely no wobble, sweet as can be and eats frozen thawed food like a beast. I just got my first clutch this year and already one has doubled in size and was eating frozen on the third feeding. This baby has never even tried to bite me either. I personally enjoy larger bps as generally I find them to be calmer. I could understand the smaller aspect as not everyone wants such a large snake.