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How many clutches did you get in your first year breeding?
This is my first year and I'm hoping for at least three clutches. What'd you guys get your first season? Vote and include the pairings, and of course pictures!
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My very first season, I got three.
Pastel to Normals
Now, I'm expecting at least 30+....
It grows exponentially every year...
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Last year was my first year, I got 3 clutches. This year I am shooting for about 20.
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Last year I got 2, This year I am shooting for 20 5 clutches of 4 different morphs
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Last year was my first year, 2 clutches, this year shooting for 12.
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My first year was 1 clutch (Lemon Pastel x SK Axanthic) and last year I had several breeding pairs but only 6 clutches and this year I've got 16 breeding pairs.
My hope is to stay at around 30.....
Seems to atleast double every year though :)
1-3 is a good starting number IMO.
Best of luck!
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My very first year, I did two (ooops, voted one), both normals one pair had striped backs just to get the feel, to learn.
This year, i am breeding 15 girls (a variety of morphs).
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I tried for 10, but got 9. It was each females first year breeding, and they gave me between 5 and 8 eggs each. Not a bad year.
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Originally Posted by
jpman78
My first year was 1 clutch (Lemon Pastel x SK Axanthic) and last year I had several breeding pairs but only 6 clutches and this year I've got 16 breeding pairs.
My hope is to stay at around 30.....
Seems to atleast double every year though :)
1-3 is a good starting number IMO.
Best of luck!
30 is about my end goal as well. I doubt I'll be able to stay at 30 but that's the goal. This year if everything goes perfect I will have 25 clutches this year, but more realistically I would guess 18-20 since a lot of my females are young and may not take. My problem is that I have too many double recessive combos going in my head.
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This year will be my first. I'll have 1. I hope!
Next year plan to do three or four. Right now I'm planning for my top to be 10-15. I want to stay small but still have fun with some morphs. I might breed other kinds of snakes also. I'd like to try some live bearers too.
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Originally Posted by
LadyOhh
My very first season, I got three.
Pastel to Normals
Now, I'm expecting at least 30+....
It grows exponentially every year...
so you have three your first year and expecting 30+ this year and you started breeding what 5 years ago??? thats a great growth no matter how many years its been. You go girl
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4
Het Pied X Normal
Het Pied X Normal
Pastel X Spider
Black Pastel X Normal
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Our first year we had 1 clutch of Pastel het SKA(Don Juan) to normal(Lucky).
She laid 8 eggs and 4 went bad about a week in to incubation and I didn't know how to seperate them so after consulting with a few breeders we sprinkled anit-fungal foot powder on the bad ones and the other 4 hatched out fine. We got 0.1 pastel 50%het SKA and 2.1 normal 50% het SKA.
Don Juan
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p.../DonJuan12.jpg
Lucky
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p268/kpl519/1618.jpg
Eggs hatching
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...9/100_0359.jpg
The 2 females that we kept
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...9/100_0400.jpg
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Originally Posted by
Deborah
4
Het Pied X Normal
Het Pied X Normal
Pastel X Spider
Black Pastel X Normal
Over achiever. :)
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Well my first year was several years ago... so I'm just going to say this is my first season all over again since I haven't bred any snakes since then.
I am planning on only one clutch this year (unless I get a breeder female hypo).
het. pied x het. pied
and if I get a female hypo....
spider het hypo x hypo
to make some killer honeybees!!:please:
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My first year I had 5 and all hatched out perfectly. Whoo hoo! This year I'm hoping for 20. Lots of 3+ year old virgins this season. Can't wait!
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I had two clutches my first season and I'll probably have six this year if everything goes as planned.
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well this is our first year and so far we only have 1 pair breeding (spider x normal)
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1st year was 2, 2nd year was 1, 3rd year was 12, 4th year was 9 and I've been keeping it between 12-14 ever since. There comes a point where you have to decide if you want to make this your job or keep it as a hobby. A dozen or so years ago I was breeding a lot of cornsnakes and started producing many many hundreds of them in a year. Taking care of 5-6 hundred baby snakes at the same time is really a lot of work and it was almost enough to make me want to get out of the hobby entirely. I scaled way back and now produce fewer then 200 baby snakes (pythons and colubrids combined) in a year and that keeps me pretty busy without becoming overwhelmed. Maybe when I retire from my day job I'll be able to expand again, but right now I'd really like to keep it as a hobby.
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My first year I produced 3 clutches of pastels..out of 15 babies I had 9 pastels..That was 2003....I'm breeding over 30 females this season..Well see what happens...
Kevin Stoltz
www.kmsreptiles.com
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This is my first year, and I'm working on 3 pairings. Het gen stripe x normal, orange ghost x normal, and pastel x normal. I've already seen a few locks, and have my fingers crossed and that incubator humming!
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I voted 3, but if you want to get really technical, it was 5 (two were breeder loans).
What "I" bred were:
Lemon pastel x normal
Lemon pastel x normal
100% Het Clown x normal
My loans were:
My dinker male x normal
Spider x my normal
This year I'm "planning" for six clutches, but I've got some girls I wasn't going to put into rotation that I'm re-thinking that may bring me up to eight. That's a good number for me in the sized apartment that I'm in for now.
This season is lemon pastel, mojave, Jolliff Tiger, possible het clowns and YB's.
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Our first year was 11 clutches. We produced some Hypos, some Albinos, VPI Axanthics and Pastels. The second year we did 21 and last year we had 45 clutches. My original goal was to double every year, however, I think I would run out of hours in the day if I had 90 clutches this year. I am shooting for about 60 clutches this year, and I think that may be the maximum amount I can handle, and still work my day job.
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in about a year i hope to have some pastel to pastel breeding going on, and pastel to normal. and have some '10 babies.
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My first year I got 1 clutch!!!
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It's my first year and I've got 1 hopeful clutch going, Graziani pastel x high gold normal. She's glowing as we speak =D
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Next season I am hoping for about 4 or 5 clutches.
It will be my first season.
Pastel X Pastel
Pastel X YB
Pastel X Spider
Pastel X Hypo
Pastel X Lesser
Any one see a trend here.... I like Yellow snakes.
We will see what my wife and wallet has to say.
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1st year of breeding Ball Pythons was 2008. Bred 3 females & 1 lady produced for us - they decide not you!
The prize stud:
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/378...text800yq3.jpg
The competent female:
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/8...gsept08il2.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/722...08tbestjq3.jpg
All hatched & are now feeding frozen thawed rat pups or fuzzy mice.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/1...8183lgopq6.jpg
One good point here with regards to the ladies who did not produce eggs in 2008..........they will be good to go for 2009. ;)
Expect to breed 4 females this year to offer:
Albino
100% het. Albino
Pied
100% het. Pied
100% het. T+ Albino
Will give the '08 Mother a rest this Season.
Lex
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Our first year we only got 1 clutch, same with our second and this year we are expecting 50+clutches lol!!!I would write up a projected list but its really long so just check out our website on our projected!!!
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I think most people just have one clutch the first year and then the bug bites them, lol.
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5 clutches first year, 4 were pastel X normal with the 5th clutch being albino X 100% het albino. That was 2002, seems like soooooooo long ago. Things have really changed dramatically in 7 years.
Best wishes, Mark Petros BallPython777.com
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first time was freak acc. I got the snake ( both were rescues and they guy claimed they had locked and all . well i end up treating the cages in the room for mites that came in with a bag of aspen. and had place the snake in a bag with out thinking (they locked again ,pillow case) and left them in my bedroom overnight since i had to treat the entire room that was back when I only had 5 snakes. I got 5 eggs and all hatched I rehomed them all but on hatchling which I am keeign the I even rehomed the female. no planning on any this year even if i got a female that of size. next year I am planning on possible 2 clutches anythey be my het to heyt pieds and a high abilno to the normal . of course i may have a 3rd clutch as the current rescue is quartine but I think it a female and not a male like the guy claimed. then I wil; have 2 clutches of het ablinos.
