het albino question...

[Ginevive]

Let's say I got a 100% het male and bred it to a normal female. The offspring; if they were bred back to the orig. het, how soon would visible morphs occur? Just wondering!

[Freakie_frog]

Adam... Help!!!!

Morph question

[muddoc]

Jen,
If you bred your 100% Het male to a normal, all of the offspring would be considered 50% Poss. Het for Albino. Hold back all of the female Poss. Hets., and grow them up. Breed them back to Dad, and if you are lucky, you will hatch out a Albino that first breeding. This all assumes that one of the Poss. Het females is actually a Het. You will never know until you breed them, but you could have bad odds, and a copy of the Albino gene was never passed to any of the female Poss. Hets which would make them normal. You have to pray for good odds. I hope that wasn't too confusing.

[frankykeno]

And even if you lucked out and one of the possible het females is actually a het it may take more than one breeding attempt to get viable eggs and then you have to hope that the odds are with you and even one of those eggs holds the visible morph that proves out your possible het. It's time consuming but I think proving out a possible het must be extremely exciting!

We'll be doing that this very year with Malachi. He'll breed to hopefully two normal females. All the resulting young will be 50% possible het for Albino. We'll sell the males as such (basically just a nice pet snake really) and the females we will retain and breed back to Malachi when they reach breeding size. Hopefully even one of his daughters will prove out at some point.

[jglass38]

Look at the payoff though! If you hatch out an Albino for nothing more than the cost of a 100% het male and some time...

[muddoc]

Jo,
Thanks for adding that, I meant to, but I guessed it missed getting into writing. Good luck to you on your breeding project this upcoming season.