Has desert female breeding got anywhere?

[AlbertaBP]

Just wondering if any progress has been made on figuring out the desert female breeding problem?

anyone getting close?

[aalomon]

Im sure if anyone successfully breeds a female there will be huge threads on almost every bp site on the web discussing it.

[Solarsoldier001]

There's a problem with the desert females?

[dart]

There's a problem with the desert females?

I actually

[rebelrachel13]

Im sure if anyone successfully breeds a female there will be huge threads on almost every bp site on the web discussing it.

I agree.... I hope it happens soon though!!

[h00blah]

There's a problem with the desert females?

For some reason, nobody has come forward saying that they've successfully bred deserts. All that we know is that they haven't bred. With the amount of time deserts have been out, everyone is assuming that desert females are just infertile. Male deserts seem to get the job done just fine though .

That's it in a nutshell... If you want to know more, just do a search.

[Lair of Dragons]

I would be willing to bet someone has done it....just not going to publish it yet...there are too many breeders in th U.S. that have them in their collection, but not every breeder will share info on the internet.....as soon as some shows a pic of them on eggs you will see them pop up from every direction...
A lot of your "OLD SCHOOL" breeders still do a lot in secret and not willing to share because of what it does to the market price. There has never ever been a female anything that cant reproduce so is the "Desert female" one of the wonders of the world....nope...just needs to be treated a little different than the normal Ball Python.
I just picked up a 650g female yestrday and looking for more at the right price because I know proof is coming soon and the information needed to have them reproduce.
Travis
Lair of Dragons

[h00blah]

I would be willing to bet someone has done it....just not going to publish it yet...there are too many breeders in th U.S. that have them in their collection, but not every breeder will share info on the internet.....as soon as some shows a pic of them on eggs you will see them pop up from every direction...
A lot of your "OLD SCHOOL" breeders still do a lot in secret and not willing to share because of what it does to the market price. There has never ever been a female anything that cant reproduce so is the "Desert female" one of the wonders of the world....nope...just needs to be treated a little different than the normal Ball Python.
I just picked up a 650g female yestrday and looking for more at the right price because I know proof is coming soon and the information needed to have them reproduce.
Travis
Lair of Dragons

What about the banana females only producing females, and rarely producing males? It's not impossible for an animal to be infertile. Sounds like a mutation. Spiders wobbling is a genetic trait that's passed down. Infertility could be the same thing. Who knows? I hope your desert female reproduces for you. They're awesome snakes, and their combos are sweet!

[Lair of Dragons]

Bob Clark though the same thing with his Leusistic Burmese and she never did reproduce...he chalked it up to the Morph must make it infertile....yet now they produce them....
Same thing was said about Caramel BPs...like I stated to many large breeders are working with them and soon info will be posted on the secret to breeding them. I would be willing to say its a temp thing.
Travis
Lair of Dragons

[Driver]

There has been a person that has came forward and said that they were able to successfully breed a female desert. He just doesn't have any pictures. And he is doing something different than most as well. He only uses ambient temps. I wanna say in the low 80s. There is talk about it on the BLBC.

Also I disagree that they wouldn't come forward. If people successfully breed a desert it would be smart of them to come forward. That way the price of the females would jump back up, and people would stop considering it a useless morph. Unless they want to buy more females while the prices are still low.