Desert Females?

I've been told that people have a hard time getting Desert Females to lay fertile clutches. Is this true?

Its sorta like the Bills winning a super bowl... Its never happened and most likely never will...

LOL...SO is it a genetic thing?

Lol - Desert females are infertile. So are desert COMBO females. During all the experimentation, desert females have become eggbound and died, or simply layed infertile eggs. Nobody has ever gotten any fertile eggs from desert females. Males are perfectly good to go, but many people abandoned the project from an investment standpoint.

Yes. Females no dice, but males seem ok.

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Thats just weird to me. I wonder why?

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

Yes. Females no dice, but males seem ok.

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Like college students! Lol

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Originally Posted by Derrick

Thats just weird to me. I wonder why?

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Its jim kelly's fault...

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Like college students! Lol

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You went to the wrong college my friend.

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Originally Posted by Derrick

You went to the wrong college my friend.

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The same thing I was thinking lol

I'm not sure infertility has anything to do with their issue, but they certainly have issues ...

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...=desert+female

Nice link and if the Desert female have congenital oviduct problems, that really would explain a lot about their infertility.
Oh well, at least we still have the Desert Ghosts! :P

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Originally Posted by MisterKyte

Nice link and if the Desert female have congenital oviduct problems, that really would explain a lot about their infertility.
Oh well, at least we still have the Desert Ghosts! :P

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These genes do different things :P. I think the gene that will closely resemble the desert in combo might be the super splatter... I can't wait to see what super splatter combos start to look like :D.

I love deserts, and will be getting myself a male someday (other things planned ;) ). I'm sad that people see the females as pointless, they're very pretty pets. I do believe that it's the responsibility of anyone who decides to use that gene to disclose the issues and strongly advise against attempting to breed females. If it's a risk to the animal's life and there is NO success story anywhere (Pro-Exotics, NERD, and BHB all come to mind, more than enough trials) it's plain cruel to just try it out.

It's cool to think that with the breeding value cut out desert and desert combo females could be colorful, gorgeous ball pythons in the price range of first time BP owners (I like normals as well! But as a kid I'd have definitely preferred a desert over a browned out pastel as a "fancy" ball python :P)

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Originally Posted by h00blah

These genes do different things :P. I think the gene that will closely resemble the desert in combo might be the super splatter... I can't wait to see what super splatter combos start to look like :D.

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Ah, I was thinking more in terms of colouration but yeah, they are not particularly similar beyond that. Super Splatter looks really promising though in terms of a "replacement" morph if they all turn out being of this caliber;
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/fi...latter/001.jpg