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Originally Posted by westcoastjungle

I don't know? It's something I heard from one of my breeders. That was her experience with recessive males and my boy(who I didn't get from her) is an example. Maybe they are snobby, spoiled and stuck up and don't mature as fast LOL! Anyway she has had the same problem the first year and then the second they were all business! Go figure?


That doesn't happen to all of them but it was what she was told and her experience and now mine.

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I am far from an expert but that makes absolutley no sense. Recessive males are no different than Codoms or normals. Some will breed in their 1st season; some won't.

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Originally Posted by westcoastjungle

Adam any thoughts on this subject?

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I have a pretty large group of recessive males and without exception they all bred in their second winter ... my original spider male didn't breed until his third winter, but all of my other male spiders did ... and my original male yellowbelly didn't breed until his third winter.

It has nothing to do with recessive vs. co-dom vs. het vs. homozygous vs. normal ... it has to do with the individual animal ... sometimes virgin ball pythons need some time ... I've had 2500 gram females in their 4th winter not produce when placed with my strongest breeders ... even after seeing copulations all season long.

They're living animals and in the end, they'll do what THEY want ... not what YOU want. :P ;) :D

-adam