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beginning breeding research
Although I am incerdibly new to snakes and BPs in particular I am looking ahead to breeding a couple years from now. I love to research and learn about all these different types. I have tried reading the forums on morphs and honestly they are baffling to me at this point.
I Have read in a thread here that you should get the female first? I have a male normal - is this BP useless for breeding - is there special "breeding" type of BP?
What would you recommend to start learning about how to preapre in advance for the goal of breeding.
I would like to buy another BP very soon as I am really enjoying working with my current. I thought about buying some kind of morph female. Anyways, would love input -always aiming to grow in knowledge on this.
Many thanks.
Phillip
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Re: beginning breeding research
Genetics research is amazingly interesting Phillip. I love reading up on all of it and there's a ton of good sites online. I'd suggest places like NERD (New England Reptile Distributors), Markus Jayne just to name too. Get a handle on what a punnet square is and what all the terms like recessive and co-dominant and things like homozygous and hetrozygous and many more. That really helped me when I first started looking at this stuff.
We're still very new to all this as well and both my husband and I find this genetics stuff very interesting and love to watch all the major breeders sites for new snakes they are producing from various breedings.
~~Jo~~
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Re: beginning breeding research
There's nothing wrong with breeding normals. Your male would be fine to breed. If you get a morph female you can produce hets if it's a recessive morph, and actual morphs if it's a dominant or co-dominant gene.
The reason people say get a female first is because they take longer to mature.
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Re: beginning breeding research
Originally Posted by Shelby
If you get a morph female you can produce hets if it's a recessive morph, and actual morphs if it's a dominant or co-dominant gene.
Oops, that means that I just gave incorrect info in another thread. Hets to normals produce hets? I thought it was just hets to hets that produced hets and homo and normals.
I'm so confused! lol
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Re: beginning breeding research
From my miniscule learning so far I undersood HETxNORM = 50%HET/50%NORM. All will look normal but half will be HET and half will be NORM.
And NORM/HOMO = 100% HETS normal looking.
Don't quote me I am still learning
PWE
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Re: beginning breeding research
Originally Posted by Phillip
Don't quote me I am still learning
Me too! I think I mis-spoke. I'll save the advice/genetics to the pros.
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Re: beginning breeding research
You need to know if the trait is recessive, co-dominant or dominat before you start. Each type of trait will result in a diferrent result. Then you need to know if you have a homo for the morph, a het or a normal. Once you have that information you can do the theoretical chance of what you'll get.
Christie
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Re: beginning breeding research
Hets to normals CAN produce hets. Around 50% will be hets.. since the het parent will pass the gene along 50% of the time.
Het to het can produce a homozygous baby (ie a visible morph) since one out of four times both parents will pass their mutated gene.
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