New to Breeding.

Have a few questions about breeding. If you have a 100% het and a normal what are the chances of producing a morph? Also do you need both to be HETs and does it matter if its male or female?

Sex doesn't matter. Here's a very helpful link:

http://www.ballpythons.ca/genetics.html

http://www.ballpythons.ca/what_get/recessive.html

If you put a het with a normal, then all of the offspring will appear normal. They will all be 50% hets.

Also if you have a Het BP that looks normal how can ou tell its a Het?

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Originally Posted by jfiel1

Also if you have a Het BP that looks normal how can you tell its a Het?

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Prove it out by breeding or buy from a breeder you trust

what is "Het", what do they look like. I am also workin on project breeding and i am gathering all the information i can. i have been trying to find what morph and pastel is also and what they look like and how to make them.

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Originally Posted by bonez

what is "Het", what do they look like.

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Het means that they have the gene but it is not visible. The snake should look normal at this stage. :)

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Originally Posted by jfiel1

Have a few questions about breeding. If you have a 100% het and a normal what are the chances of producing a morph?

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0% chance of producing a visual morph. The allelles of a recessive gene need to fall from both parents inorder to create homozygous(visual) offspring.

100% het x normal = all offspring are 50% possible hets

cool thanx, pop quiz 2 lol
how do you get a morph or a pastel?

A pastel is a morph.
Pastel is a co-dominant morph, so breed a pastel to a normal and you get pastels and normals.

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Originally Posted by bonez

cool thanx, pop quiz 2 lol
how do you get a morph or a pastel?

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Or you could buy one.