Looking back, what would be the first female's you would purchase to breed?

Hey guys,

A friend and I have decided to start breeding as a hobby. I've been doing my research and have an idea what girls I wanna pick up, but would like to hear different opinions on good places to start.

Thanks!

It depends on how old you are and what your interests are. I'd suggest bars, school, work, the gym - all good places to start picking up girls for your breeding hobby. :gj:

lmao.... well played.

Im with Eric... dont forget church. WalMart if you like to live dangerous.

I put together a master list of what 3 2-gene males would make with 8 or 9 females. I did the "math" on optimum output and chose WHAT I LIKE THE MOST. I dont care about the market or sales.

I think I've done pretty well with my first females. My very first female is my leopard girl. Only "regret" I have is my first BP wasn't a female. I never thought I'd have more than one so I went with a male so he'd stay smaller.

Anyways I choose my girls off of the morphs I want to make. Then I but 2-3 gene males to pair them with. I'm expecting three pairings/clutches next year and none of them have the potential for normals.


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since you're asking in terms of breeding as a hobby, i suggest get few or even just one of the best you can afford instead of more number of lower quality females for the same amount of money. breeding one or few great clutches is more satisfying than producing a ton of average snakes. and breeding just a few carefully selected snakes gives a better chance of producing more keepers, thus sparing the hobbyist from having to sell off too many unwanted hatchlings.

i would go for:

super mojave, super mojave, super enchi, super enchi, super fire, ivory, and super mojave.

in no particular order. there is beauty in keeping things simple and predictable.

Not a bad list. I think visual recessive females are also a good choice. You can pair them with any codom or dom gene you might like to combine with the recessive, hold back a male, and be producing the visual combo a year later.

20 normals and a male with the most genes I could afford.

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

i would go for:

super mojave, super mojave, super enchi, super enchi, super fire, ivory, and super mojave.

in no particular order. there is beauty in keeping things simple and predictable.

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I love BEL. That's probably where I should start since it combines a strong gene and a snake I love.

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Originally Posted by Marrissa

I'm expecting three pairings/clutches next year and none of them have the potential for normals.

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Are you breeding all Super males/females? All visual recessives?

I'd sure like to minimize Normals, but they are part of the game in breeding.

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Originally Posted by briguy

I love BEL. That's probably where I should start since it combines a strong gene and a snake I love.

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That and both the co-dom forms are gorgeous i love Mojave/Lesser(butter)/Russo

But a good place to start where you can make some killer snakes but a "bigger" investment would be a Banana you can throw a few nice other co-doms into them and make amazing snakes and dont even start with the recessive banana's

Spinner banana

Mojave banana

Banana pied

Clown banana:bow::bow:



Aswell If you can get mojave. (look at picking up a Phantom and or Special.)

Mojave phantom or Cystal( Mojave x special i got a clutch of those cooking atm)

I got a lesser as my first breeding female. She'll be paired with my bumblebee (if he's ready) this season, or a friend will loan me a lesser/mojave/butter/whatever else we could want xD

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Originally Posted by coreydelong

Are you breeding all Super males/females? All visual recessives?

I'd sure like to minimize Normals, but they are part of the game in breeding.

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Ax fire x ax pastel, enchi kingpin x silver streak, and pastel clown x pastel het clown. So technically no normals. Worse case scenario is het clown.


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It really depends on your budget and how many females you want. I would go with genes that you really like that aren't too expensive, and go with the super form if there is one. If you want to do recessives, be prepared to go several generations before you get results.

I'd get them with genes that pair well with almost every other gene, like pastel. Then if you get a nice 4 gene male, you don't have to worry about conflicting genes washing out the others.

Or you can do what I'm doing and go for a hefty double recessive project :P. I'm in it for the long haul