Female desert actually laid fertile eggs?

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Ryan Buckley of Outback Reptiles posted a picture on his Facebook page (mobile uploads) of a supposed female desert on a clutch of what looks like 6 good eggs.

Im not going to post the picture without permission.

Can anyone verify this? It's something to keep an eye on now. If it is a desert and they hatch then it means it is possible to breed female deserts.

Pretty cool huh.



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[snakesRkewl]

While I'm excited for Ryan if that's true, I don't think it changes much in the grand scope of things, but we shall see

[ball-nut]

While I'm excited for Ryan if that's true, I don't think it changes much in the grand scope of things, but we shall see

Not entirely true. If, and that's a big IF they go term and hatch into thriving babies, female desert prices will sadly not be in line with the success rate of deserts.


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[Royal Hijinx]

Not entirely true. If, and that's a big IF they go term and hatch into thriving babies, female desert prices will sadly not be in line with the success rate of deserts.


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The prices are not in line now....

[h00blah]

While I'm excited for Ryan if that's true, I don't think it changes much in the grand scope of things, but we shall see

It depends. Lots of questions need to be asked first. A big one is whether or not this took some special incubation / cooling / SOMETHING that got it to produce. Another is if they will go full term and hatch into healthy deserts!

If so, then enchis, orange dreams, AND deserts are my favorite enhancer morphs

I really hope that it IS a desert... I hope everything works out.. and I hope to get a desert in the future


EDIT: To the OP, you don't need to post the picture, but you can link his facebook . For all the facebook newbies, just click on "Wall" and look at the post he titled "And They Say Female Deserts Don't Lay Fertile Eggs...":

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.p...007754&sk=wall

[Slim]

I'm a big fan of Ryan. In fact, I purchased my most recent addition from him. But, I do have to wonder what he did different, that no one else has been able to do before...

I hope this news it true and the hobby can get a handle on the secret to making female Deserts go.

A Desert Pinstripe is very high on my wish list.

[h00blah]

A Desert Pinstripe is very high on my wish list.

x2! Desert spinner ....

Anything desert really! Gah, I'm getting my hopes up !!

[Royal Hijinx]

If I were him I would have kept this under wraps until they hatched. Then wrote up something.

[Luke Martin]

See this is where the confusion lies with the female Desert thing. Nobody every said that Desert females can't lay. It's been said that they just don't do well...they normally die, slug out, or don't produce at all. But 1 in 100 doesn't really prove or disprove the original statements that female deserts aren't good producers.

I still have a small amount of faith that someone will do something to figure it out or breed them into some larger animals and make them better producers, but one female on eggs doesn't make me any more or less of a believer.

[spitzu]

Hopefully this is just the first of many deserts on eggs this season.