7Snakes Breeding Season 2019

I'd like to share my breeding plans and progress this year, so instead of posting random bits and pieces every time a relevant thread came up I decided to make my own. To start, here are some recent pairings I made over the winter that I think I might get eggs from this year.

Confirmed locks:
Pastel x Green Pastel
Enchi Pied x Mojave
Enchi Pied x Cinnamon het Pied
Enchi Pied x Black Pastel het Pied

Pairied, but have not witnessed a lock:
Yellowbelly het Pied x Black Pastel het Pied
Yellowbelly het Pied x Normal het Pied
Pied x Mojave
Pied x Cinnamon het Pied
These guys just didn't seem up to the task, so I ended up putting my Enchi Pied in with most of them.

First pairing of 2019:
Pied x Normal het Pied (no locks witnessed, but there wre signs of activity)
Trying to give this guy another chance. I thought maybe a different girl would help.

First new pairing of 2019:
Leopard Spider poss Yb, 66% ph Pied x Pastel YB? het Pied
This guy just got up to size and he's trying so hard... he just can't seem to figure out where her cloaca is, lol
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/16liepz.jpg
I appreciate his enthusiasm though, considering that two of my boys are sitting around like lumps on logs.

He'll figure it out eventually.

Update: The day after I posted this I checked in on my female western hognose and she was HUGE. Pretty sure it was an ovy. It's a shame I didn't get a good picture. I'm excited though, she may lay my first eggs of the year. None of my BP girls have gone yet.

Also, the little dude figured it out!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/29axu01.jpg
Lucky for me, he's a quick learner. They're gonna make some gorgeous babies.

A few more locks:
Enchi Pied x Mojave
Enchi Pied x Black Pastel het Pied

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/1zokgvr.jpg

Really excited for these two. Their babies are going to look great.

Got another lock from these two a few days ago, Enchi Pied x Mojave:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/2rvzfb9.jpg
She's been doing a lot of building and bowl wrapping, so I have positive expectations for these two.

Tub is only bare because they like to snuggle under the blankets. I had to lift the paper to get a pic.

Looks like some exciting things are coming your way. I'll look forward to yuor future posts.

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Originally Posted by rlditmars

Looks like some exciting things are coming your way. I'll look forward to yuor future posts.

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Thanks!

Quick update, not much has changed in the locks department, but this girl looks like she's about to ovulate, if she hasn't already. She's already gone off feed.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...com/t7miyg.jpg
I was expecting the Mojave girl to go first, but I certainly can't complain!

Your Enchi Pied sure gets around! :cool:

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Originally Posted by FollowTheSun

Your Enchi Pied sure gets around! :cool:

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Oh yeah. He's a reliable breeder. Not sure what I'd do without him. Speaking of which:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/24mdcut.jpg
The Mojave girl locked with him again few days ago, and now she's glowing.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/29byd79.jpg
It may be hard to tell because of the lighting, but the color change is really amazing. She's usually very dark, but now she looks like a Mojave Goldblush all of a sudden.

And I was right when I said this girl was about to ovulate:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/30ufju9.jpg
She's definitely doing it now! So huge...

In other news, I think my Yellowbelly het Pied may actually be female. I put my Enchi Pied in the same cage with the Yellowbelly and this girl awhile back, and he locked with the Yellowbelly instead of her. At first I thought it might be a fluke, since there was a female in the cage. So I tried with just the two "males" and they locked again.

So either the Yellowbelly het Pied is female, or he's gay. Guess I won't know unless I get eggs. "He" probed male, but I've never seen hemipenes and he's never locked with a female. I've heard that in some cases people can damage a female's scent glands by probing too deep, and that can cause them to probe as male from then on. I bought this snake from a guy who was new to BPs and struggling with their husbandry, so I wonder if that's what happened.

Late update, but this girl had her pre-lay shed on the 23rd. The countdown to eggs begins!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/28k69hi.jpg

The mojave is starting to look like she's about to ovulate, but I didn't get a picture of that. I think my green pastel girl may also go this year.

...and we have a baby bump!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...com/oif6kx.jpg
No tail suck yet, but it's coming.