The worst odds ever?

guys guys guys. There are absolutely worse odds than that. Three females, three clutches, about 17 eggs total...17/17 were slugs.

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

guys guys guys. There are absolutely worse odds than that. Three females, three clutches, about 17 eggs total...17/17 were slugs.

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Ouch.

Serious ouch, sorry to hear!

17 slugs. Man that is crushing. I'm going to be a nervous wreck when I eventually breed. And I'm only going to have one female to start with so that's going to be a blow if they turn out all slugs.

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

guys guys guys. There are absolutely worse odds than that. Three females, three clutches, about 17 eggs total...17/17 were slugs.

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Not even going to try to top that, but...

I can't decide what my worst was. First year breeding, mojave, pastel, and yellow belly males paired to normals and a pastel, I ended up with 22 eggs, 2 mojos, 1 pastel, 19 normals.

Last year, I paired a smoking pastel hypo male to a nice, clean normal female...out of 10 eggs, ended up with 1 pastel het hypo male.

:/ Speaking of depressing stories.. I got a really gorgeous, light and differen spider from a normal x spider breeding some years back. I really wanted to breed him and see if his differences meant anything.. he was the second-last snake that I kept after selling everyone else off before/during our crosscountry move that ultimately failed. I kept him and Ginger, my big normal. Both died after coming back from CA; the spider male was always really fragile and was just a strange keeper with a weak appetite and appearance. This was him, next to one of his siblings (that clutch had good odds though; pretty sure that it was 4 spiders and2 normals; gotta check the record. Ginger had to have died of old age; she was in perfect health. I didn't know about the fact that you cannot get a good necropsy after freezing, and she is still in my freezer. When I feel ready, I will conduct one to see for any visual problems inside. But this was the spider that I lost.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ghtspiderM.jpg

I still get depresses when I think of the little guy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...lightspiii.jpg

and this was Ginger. http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/ginger98.jpg

My odds were, out of upwards of 20 snakes, the two that I chose to keep longterm ultimately died on me. :( Rebuilding now. Makes you appreciate what you have, I suppose. I suspect that my intuition on keeping these two was due to maybe knowing that they did not have much time left, perhaps? The little male was not a snake who ever exhibited the strength and hardiness I would look for in an animal to sell, regardless of his pattern, though. And Ginger was more of a handleable pet than my other breeders

lol if it made 1 albino its 100 percent

At least your hold back is really cool! Those odds do suck :( Even if the het wasn't 100% it is now.

Edit: UGH...old thread risen from the dead