Breeding with a notmal

[maskedburito]

Sorry for my lack of knowledge... But this is for a much further time but is there a morph that can bred with a normal bp to produce some sort of baby that is visually different than a normal?

Thanks!

[cchardwick]

Yes, in fact normals are good to prove out multi-gene snakes so you can tell what genes are in the mix. If you breed a single gene with a normal you'll get 50:50 normal / single gene. For example a pinstripe x normal = half pinstripe and half normal baby snakes. If you breed a super to a normal you won't get any normals, for example a super yellowbelly (also called an 'Ivory') x normal = 100% yellowbelly babies. Some people will pick up high end male with six or seven genes and get a bunch of cheap normal females to produce a lot of really cool babies on the cheap. You can play around with the genetics on this website, I spend a lot of time here with different combos:

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wizard/

You could also buy a snake that has a super gene with a mix of other genes and cross it with a normal, you'll get a whole bunch of different snakes and no normals at all. If you have a male normal you can still breed with a female, but usually one male can breed with up to 3 or 4 females so it's better to have a normal female. I actually have a normal male ball python that I got for free, couldn't pass it up. I may breed it with one of my snakes that is pastel / spider / possible yellow belly / possible het pied. If I breed it with a normal I'll be able to tell for sure if it has yellowbelly in it. I also have a male pied that I can cross with it to see if it actually is het pied (was 66% odds for het pied). I really like to have mostly single gene snakes, that way I can prove out some of my more complex gene mixes. And when I cross my snakes together with one or two genes it's pretty easy to tell what genes are in the babies instead of guessing.

[wolfy-hound]

All of the "co-dom" morphs will produce some babies that look like the co-dom parent. Recessive traits will not. So you want to look up any co-dom morphs.

Some to start you off with; spider*, pinstripe*, pastel, lesser, mojave, cinnamon and black pastel. All of these should give some babies that look like the co-dom parent, while some will be normals like the other parent.

*spider and pinstripes are not "regular" co-doms, but they will still act the same, in giving you some babies that look like the morph parent.

There are many others, but these can get you started off.

[maskedburito]

This is excellent info. Thanks so much for the info!!