Double Clutching

[Royal Tartan]

Interested to know of anyone who has intentionally put two males to there female to try see if they get a double clutch.

looking for type ( ie what morph , norm or other ) of male's and female.....and more interestingly ...what the actual clutch ended up as.

TIA

[Evan Jamison]

I'm assuming you mean multiple sires for the same clutch, and not multiple clutches in a single season (the widely used definition of double-clutch).

This season I bred a pastel male and a spider male to a pastel female, but only got babies sired by the spider.

-Evan

[elevatethis]

Don't confuse "double clutch"-ing with having 2 males sire offspring in the same clutch.

Double-clutching is the slang term for what is most commonly known in corn snakes, where females lay back to back clutches in one season.

I think what you are asking is if you breed 2 males to the same female, can both males have offspring in the clutch. The answer is YES, and it has been done many times. There's been a few posts on here with breeders who have experienced this.

[Royal Tartan]

got it in one peeps...meant two sire's one dam ...ideally looking for number of eggs produced ...with break down of morphs hatched from clutch ....sex ratio is unimportant

[cassandra]

I only double clutch when I'm street racing.../nod

[Royal Tartan]

I only double clutch when I'm street racing.../nod

hehe street racing balls ...thats gotta be a site lol

[mricyfire]

whoa this is pretty interesting...couple questions.

IS that really bad for the female? Like she would have to be a big girl right? Are chances of complications or dying higher during birth?
Is this a recommended process?

[LadyOhh]

I am personally expecting a couple clutches to have several sires.


I was impatient towards the end, and threw everyone in with everyone...

So, at the end of the month, I will let you see what comes out!

It is not unhealthy for the female, as long as she is the right breeding weight.

As a friend of mine who is no longer a friend used to say "It's just sex.. It doesn't matter with who."

[CntrlF8]

I think some people are misunderstanding what we're talking about here... Just because you've got multiple sires for a single dam doesn't mean that you're going to get more eggs. it just means that there's a chance that some of the eggs fertilized will be from different sires.

[Royal Tartan]

^^^^^ Spot on .

It will NOT increase the egg count , or , as LadyOhh said, harm a healthy female ( had to giggle at the image you created in my head lass, a Royal Royale Free for all ! )

Bet ya cant wait till they hatch G/L