Can't pass up this DEAL!

Just looked at the papers...

I guess the lady that bought this snake bought it from RCReptiles,it'ssigned by Ronald Crawford, breeder and owner of RCReptiles.com

is that a good sign? I don't really no the rep on rcr.

The feedback forum on here might have something about RCR, As far as the deal, Hell it's so good you could call it a steal :)

With your 100% het pied male to a normal female, all of the babies will LOOK normal, but half will carry the pied gene. Unfortunately, you have no way of knowing which ones carry it unless you breed each one out.

If you are fortunate enough to get a few girl babies from that pair, you could breed each one back to the dad in three years and if you are even more fortunate, you could possibly get a pied. But the odds are pretty long I'm afraid. First you'd have to get a girl who was het pied, and remember you can't tell, then statistically one out of four of her babies will be a pied.

But, you could end up with all normal looking babies again, or you could end up with all pieds, it's more or less a gamble.

My advice to you, if you want to increase your odds of a pied, is once you have your new snakes settled, look for a 100% het pied female for the male. You can pick up a baby het female for around $300 right now, of course a bigger female will cost more, but they are out there. If you breed a 100% het pied female to your male, then you already have the one in four odds of a pied, without the guesswork.

That is the route I'm going. I actually have 2 het pied females for my male. I figure if the odds for one girl is one in four, then two girls should double my odds of that pied I'm longing for.

Gale

Not sure if you have any other snakes if you do be sure to read the quarrantine "how to". It is an excellent source of information.

Congrats on your deal....I hope it all works out!! :gj:

Congrats! A little male heavy - I'd recommend also getting some more females at some point to balance that out. Congrats!

Heh I think thats the GPS I got for christmas. Congrats on the deal- I like it when I find people who will trade stuff I want, for stuff I have that I don't want ;)

Well as of right now, we already own 3 females 2 that will def be ready for breeding next yr. All the snakes besides one of our RTB which we found out last night most likely is a girl and the other snake we got from some one in a TRADE most likely is a boy even though he said it was probed? They were all over eachother last night and trying to wrap! Still confussed on who boy whos girl? i dont know but anyways 4 snakes that we have out of 5 were trades.

We figure that we'd rather trade to start, then mix it up with trading and buying.

oh bad news... She no longer has the blonde.:( I kinda wanted that one so I can try breeding out on my own and leave the pied to my boyfriend.
But oh well. maybe I can see if she has a ghost or spider or something to put in there for the blonde.

Fingerscrossed