One of the most interesting facets of breeding Calkings is the variety of offspring you can get. Unless you know generations of history, there is no way to say for certain what you'll get when eggs hatch.
Going on 25 years ago, perhaps a tad more, there was a boom in Calkings and they were not bred from specific locality to specific locality all the time. There were thousands produced for the pet trade and by private breeders.
This is one of my favorite species and I still get new things from time to time out of parents that you would never suspect of carrying genes to produce such odd pattern and colour morphs.
Then, when you consider that the black and white desert phase and the brown and yellow coastal phase mix to produce even more snakes that look like neither parent, you'll go crazy trying to guess what you'll get.
Plus, since they are such a genetic hodgepodge, you get colours and patterns that skip generations, seemingly, and popup completely unexpectedly.
It's a darn shame the babies are such pissants, as a rule, because they are one of the best pet snakes you can get.
Got pics of yours?
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