New to Breeding.

Have a few questions about breeding. If you have a 100% het and a normal what are the chances of producing a morph? Also do you need both to be HETs and does it matter if its male or female?

Sex doesn't matter. Here's a very helpful link:

http://www.ballpythons.ca/genetics.html

http://www.ballpythons.ca/what_get/recessive.html

If you put a het with a normal, then all of the offspring will appear normal. They will all be 50% hets.

Also if you have a Het BP that looks normal how can ou tell its a Het?

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Originally Posted by jfiel1

Also if you have a Het BP that looks normal how can you tell its a Het?

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Prove it out by breeding or buy from a breeder you trust

what is "Het", what do they look like. I am also workin on project breeding and i am gathering all the information i can. i have been trying to find what morph and pastel is also and what they look like and how to make them.

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Originally Posted by bonez

what is "Het", what do they look like.

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Het means that they have the gene but it is not visible. The snake should look normal at this stage. :)

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Have a few questions about breeding. If you have a 100% het and a normal what are the chances of producing a morph?

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0% chance of producing a visual morph. The allelles of a recessive gene need to fall from both parents inorder to create homozygous(visual) offspring.

100% het x normal = all offspring are 50% possible hets

cool thanx, pop quiz 2 lol
how do you get a morph or a pastel?

A pastel is a morph.
Pastel is a co-dominant morph, so breed a pastel to a normal and you get pastels and normals.

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cool thanx, pop quiz 2 lol
how do you get a morph or a pastel?

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Or you could buy one.

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how do you get a morph or a pastel?

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Base morphs are mutations that naturally occurred in the wild, and that are proven to be genetic by breeding.

so the only way to create a pastel offspring is to have the mom or pop be a pastel? is the difference that they are brighter? with maybe a different pattern?

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so the only way to create a pastel offspring is to have the mom or pop be a pastel?

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Yes..

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is the difference that they are brighter? with maybe a different pattern?

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no the difference is the type of genes it takes to make that visual morph. The gene is co dominate.. meaning only one parent has to have this type of gene to make the visual morph

So would the offspring of breeding an albino with a norm be concidered a type of morph?


im working on my way to some nice projects to share :)

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So would the offspring of breeding an albino with a norm be concidered a type of morph?


im working on my way to some nice projects to share :)

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all offspring would be 100% het for albino. Normal looking snakes carring 1/2 the genetics needed to make an Albino

so i gues the only way to create a cool looking snake other than normal is to spend the couple thousand and get a morph or pastel?

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so i gues the only way to create a cool looking snake other than normal is to spend the couple thousand and get a morph or pastel?

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A pastel is a morph, and you could get a baby male for like 250

oops, thanx for catching that, i just meant to say generaly a morph like a pastel or something. i have a male now, so im looking for a good female to make some nice babies.