Tri-stripe

Couldn't you just breed a 100% het male, to say 1 female, hold back all the female hatchlings, and breed them back to the male? Each female has a 50% chance on being het. Right?

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Originally Posted by Yodawagon

Couldn't you just breed a 100% het male, to say 1 female, hold back all the female hatchlings, and breed them back to the male? Each female has a 50% chance on being het. Right?

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Yes but you need a larger pool to start seeing any consistency with those averages. Here's an example from 1 snake and since in the earlier hypotheticals we're putting a het to her, there's no visual way of telling if we had a crap out on the odds or not until we raise animals up and prove them out.

Pastel Female: in these 3 seasons, none of the sires carried the pastel gene
clutch 1) 3/5 snakes with pastel gene 60%
clutch 2) 6/7 snakes with pastel gene 86%
clutch 3) 0/6 snakes with pastel gene 0%

Average pastel gene passed on from these 3 clutches, 50% - right on the money. Which isn't really what I expected from a smaller sample size but it still works to my point. You can kill the odds in a single clutch, the odds can kill you, or anything in between. The more clutches you throw into the pile, the closer you will come to seeing the proper averages.

my average is around 9 but on one clutch i got 14 (last season)
it is the size of the eggs that i like i get 120 gram eggs all the time
nice big healthy babies too


and i would agree not to put him to 10 females was just saying that if you did
I would not put a yearling male to more than 3 maybe 4 tops but even then the odds can kill you as you said

on the other side if i did find a het tri for say the 350 mark well he would be mine :)

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Originally Posted by Yodawagon

Couldn't you just breed a 100% het male, to say 1 female, hold back all the female hatchlings, and breed them back to the male? Each female has a 50% chance on being het. Right?

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the issue here is there is no guarantee that you would even get a female or even if you got 9 females no guarantee that any would carry the tri stripe gene
this is why we breed to 3 or 4 or more that way you have a better chance of getting the visual tri-stripe when you breed back