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    Re: Pairing up co-dom/doms to normals

    All of my normals were chosen with selective breeding in mind. My lemon pastel is only paired with my brightest females. Doesn't matter to me how busy the babies are, since lemons tend to be a busier patterned pastel, and I'm going for high contrast.

    With the exception of one of my normals, all of my normal females are reduced pattern normals.

    One of my banded females threw very jungley babies this past season, and one banded baby (but that baby got her genetics from her dad - who is a Jolliff Tiger, and that baby looks like her daddy and nothing like her mom). Two seasons she's thrown busy babies, but she passes on her amazing head blushing and colors to them - so I keep that in mind now when deciding who to pair with her.

    I have a blushed black back normal - very dark, that I will probably pair with my mojo this year to try to pass on some of her blushing, but make a deeper colored mojo.

    I also selectively choose my morphs as well, with the hopes of improving my morphs with each generation that I breed them.

    IMHO, and with my business plans, selective breeding is the future of the ball python market. While I currently have a waiting list for my lemon pastels and have about 10 females ready to go, only 4 or 5 are females that I feel will enhance the babies, and so those will be the only females that he will be paired with.
    Last edited by rabernet; 10-10-2009 at 02:14 PM.

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