Hi All,
I'm Phil Savarin of Atomic Animals, a professional breeding located in France 35km south of Paris.
I have some kind of quizz to expose to you. Please tell me what you're thinking about it.
You will find enclosed photos of 3 babies ball python females (and one of their mother) that are born to a friend's a while ago. As you will see one of them has a serious kink on the head.
The father is a BEL (Lesser x Lesser) that I hatched in 2011. This snake is the son of parents that are also coming from me and which are of a "special" line of Lesser I hatched some years ago from parents I still keep.
I'm saying "special" cause when I breed one normal looking Lesser male (I bought in Canada some years ago) to a Normal looking female (coming from M&S reptilien and bought as a baby in 1997) which is very big and very "clean" in pattern and colour, that always gives me very "light" in colour Lesser that really don't have nothing to envy to a Pastel Lesser even if, as you'll have understood, there's no Pastel in it. In addition to this light colour, the pattern is very concentrated on the back of the body, leaving the sides "nearly without" pattern.
I've kept nearly all the babies this pair produced except a few including the BEL sold to my pal.
That guy bred the BEL with a Genetic Stripe female and as the result should have been some Lessers 100% Het GS, it finally has nothing to do with that...
As the male is coming from me, I know there's no GS gene in it and even if it was the case, the babies don't look like Lesser Genetic Stripe.
So I guess, with of course being not sure of anything, that it's coming from some kind of hidden gene carried by the babies from the original female...
And maybe that hidden gene reacts with GS gene and that's why the babies are looking like this?
It could have been coming from the original Lesser male as I did not breed him, but once more the babies don't look like Lesser GS balls.

I expect to breed the original female to a GS, what would you do if you were in that situation ?

Thanks for your time and advices.

Phil
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