Artificial inseminaton for ball pythons?

[Freakie_frog]

Justin makes a very good point in that the behavior is all part of the egg development process. By the time the shell has formed around the embryo the deal is done genetically speaking. Even with artificial insemination you would still need a visually proven homozygous animal for all recessive traits to get 100% hets for every trait otherwise the offspring would be 50% poss hets for about 8 -10 different traits.

LOL I would be neat to do with say a co-dom animal that is a one of a kind and maybe dies to have its genetic material on hand to reproduce the trait artificially. But thats the only reason I could see doing it.

[bigballs]

its not a joke. You dont beleive scientists can create het for anything, but they can clone animals. The snake is probally inserted with the het of your choice while still in the egg. science is amazing but we will never see its true capability with government restrictions

i think we can see science's true capability everyday and that the government's restrictions only limit man's ability to mess around with it.

but thats a different thread all together...

but imagine we learned to clone piebalds and bp.net became about cloning morphs instead of breeding them?

[Freakie_frog]

i think we can see science's true capability everyday and that the government's restrictions only limit man's ability to mess around with it.

but thats a different thread all together...

but imagine we learned to clone piebalds and bp.net became about cloning morphs instead of breeding them?

I can already clone a pied

In fact I plan to this year..

[bigballs]

i wish you the best of luck with that new and exciting venture!

send me a cloned pied when you have some extra!

[Freakie_frog]

i wish you the best of luck with that new and exciting venture!

send me a cloned pied when you have some extra!

LOL Yea the day I get a pied I am taking off of work to take pics and make phone calls.

That project excites me more than any other in the future.
sorry for the Hijack.

Back to the AI conversation

[bigballs]

i'd quit my job for piebalds....

back to AI!

[Monty]

yea but with cloning they are all gonna look identical so why would you want a bunch of snakes that look exactly the same i like the variety in the ball pythons

[bigballs]

you can clone variety!

[Monty]

everything i ever heard about cloning the sheep rats monkeys whatever have been cloned looked identical to the animal is was cloned off of so i think variety will only come though actual breeding

[bigballs]

well if you get the genetic information from different animals of the same morph with specific traits that are desired by the buyer then you can clone variety.