OPINION: Breeding several males to one female?

Just trying to get some other opinions on breeding several different males to one female for curiosity sake. For example, lets say you have one normal female and you want to breed the following co-dom males: mojave, spider, pastel. Will this better the chances of popping out a morph of any of the above or will it be the same? Has anyone else done this or thought of it?

Breeders do run different morph males through females and normally you won't know which is the daddy if you've seen them all lock up with the female. Normally when you do so you have to just sit back and wait til' the eggs hatch to see what pops out.

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Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany

Breeders do run different morph males through females and normally you won't know which is the daddy if you've seen them all lock up with the female. Normally when you do so you have to just sit back and wait til' the eggs hatch to see what pops out.

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True but would there not be a chance of babies from some or all of the fathers? Not genes combining in the same baby but just some babies having different fathers?

YouTube - Henry Piorun views his clutch PinStripe (F) to KillerBee (M) [4 eggs] - (Part 1 of 2) Just watched this..it's a scream..thats luck for you..a split clutch & didnt know it lol!:gj:

Well guess that answers my question...now I am gonna throw everything to my girls :D muah ha ha ha ha!!!!

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Originally Posted by serpentes

Well guess that answers my question...now I am gonna throw everything to my girls :D muah ha ha ha ha!!!!

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Hahaha..thought Henry was gonna pee himself with excitement..funniest clip I have watched ..hope I get the same odds on my pied & pewter pairings :)

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Originally Posted by Bruceweb

Hahaha..thought Henry was gonna pee himself with excitement..funniest clip I have watched ..hope I get the same odds on my pied & pewter pairings :)

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Lol, based on what I know about Henry I would say he probably did a little...lol

I hope luck is with me this season too, so far I have a female that has been locked with a bee, and het. pied and now I am just waiting on my mojave to make his move lol...then I have another girl locked with the same bee, het. albino and now I am thinking of throwing my spider to her...and a pastel jungle that has locked with my spider and now I want to throw my mojo into that mix...lol...fingers crossed :)

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Originally Posted by serpentes

Lol, based on what I know about Henry I would say he probably did a little...lol

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Haha..seems like a nice straight forward kind of guy..:)

He is one of the coolest guys I have ever had the pleasure of working with :)

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Originally Posted by serpentes

He is one of the coolest guys I have ever had the pleasure of working with :)

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Wow! lucky you..some of you guys have awsome collections..I'm new to ball pythons but hope to create some nice things over the years..its intresting stuff..watch all Henry & others clips as I try to gather info..some amazing morphs being created :)

I'm low on breeding-sized females right now, so I've introduced them each to my four big boys - the pastel, mojave, black pastel & spider. Only the pastel has been witnessed locking, so I'm mostly expecting a bunch of pastels. ;) Not sure about the odds of a split clutch, but that sure would be awesome!!

becareful in what you breed to a female. I know a breeder who breed a male fire and a male super pastel to a female pastel. it took some time to figure out if it was a firefly (fire x pastel) or a very good looking super pastel. he thought it was a firefly but he wasn't 100% sure at first. So when breeding like this, make sure you use males that you will be able to tell the hatchlings apart. this breeder been breeding for years and fireflies were still very new and not many, he was correct with it being a firefly but at first he wasn't 100 %

Also, when breeding multiple males with a female I'd suggest only using co-dom/dom morphs.


If you throw a het/visual recessive male in with a female and other males with her as well you'll never know which animals are poss. het/hets even if there isn't evidence of multiple fathers:

For examble, you bred a pied to the female but there was also a pastel male put with her. It is possible that even if there are no pastels in the clutch, that some of the normals are actually sired by him. Therefore (imo) you couldn't saftely say the clutch was 100% het pied.