Hets not Hets?

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Could it have bien that the pastel gene didnt catch?

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It could be or could be not .Ya just gotta love ball pythons :P

I was actually talking to Jesus Rivas about this, even though he works with anacondas he says they can retain sperm for several years, and still produce young.

That is really interesting, I have a female that I am going to breed to Blaze (Pastel), that was bred to a Yellow Ghost last year. She did not develop, so the breeder let her go because she is a mouse only girl.

So if she had a clutch with no pastels, I could be in the position of not knowing if the babies were normals (from a pastel/normal clutch with no pastels), or het yellow ghosts correct?

Neil

We try to alternate females from dominant genes to Recessive genes from one year to the next. i.e. If we bred a female to a Hypo one year, we will breed her to a dominant gene the following year. Also, when we are attempting to make Hets from Normal females, we like to use young, first time breeders. This helps to eliminate most of the confusion.

So gross and cool at the same time...cool because in the wild, the female bp's don't necessarily need to breed each season in order to get the species populated but eww, "sperm retention"... :puke2:

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Originally Posted by cassandra

So gross and cool at the same time...cool because in the wild, the female bp's don't necessarily need to breed each season in order to get the species populated but eww, "sperm retention"... :puke2:

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I guess when you can not find a mate and want kids its the way to go :8: :8: :8: .

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Originally Posted by muddoc

We try to alternate females from dominant genes to Recessive genes from one year to the next. i.e. If we bred a female to a Hypo one year, we will breed her to a dominant gene the following year. Also, when we are attempting to make Hets from Normal females, we like to use young, first time breeders. This helps to eliminate most of the confusion.

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That sounds like a good idea. With that in mind I would definitely not want to breed this girl to anything recessive, my only real choice at this point would be to the Pastel.

Thanks Tim....

What I plan to do to make sure that this doesn't happen is do a 1 to 1 Breed only one male to one female. Of course that will make me small time.