Who's your daddy?

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Originally Posted by blueapplepaste

I'm curious why this is; or why it has any advantages. Do you see a higher than 50/50 split between morphs and normals if you breed two different morphs to one female (I woulddn't think so)? Or is it simply so that one female might produce two different morphs? Why would this be advantageous over breeding those same males with two different females?

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The advantage is that breeding ball pythons is not as simple as some people will lead you to believe. It's not just about manipulating environmental conditions and pairing a couple of snakes up. Sometimes it takes more than that. Using multiple males is one very good way to help ensure your breeding success. I have some large females that won't even begin to develop mature follicles unless they are bred by multiple males.

Hope this helps.

-adam

Certainly your first goal is to get eggs so multiple males is backup in case one is shooting blanks. Interesting that multiple males can also help a female ovulate too.

But there is also the advantage that you have the chance for more than one cross in a single year with a single female.

I have a large female that seems to be some sort of dominant. I'm hoping (through a breeding loan) to breed her to a lesser, hypo mojave, and maybe even a son of hers this winter. I wouldn't want to use just a young son on the chance he wasn't producing good sperm. I also eventually want to find out what all those crosses look like. My main goal is to get more babies out of her but if I get really lucky I might get the answer to what three different combinations look like in one year. It's possible we might have to track down a lab to do paternity testing if it isn't obvious who fathered some of the offspring since all of these combos would be previously unknown.

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

in case one is shooting blanks.

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I guess if you're using very young males that this is possibly, but just to be clear, it certainly does not anything to do with what I stated above.

Hope this helps.

-adam