The worst odds ever?

[JigsawPythons]

Last year was my first year breeding. I produced one clutch consisting of four eggs from a spider x normal pairing. The end results? All four were normals...a complete strike out.

[j_h_smith]

Can someone make me feel a little less dissapointed and tell me its happened to them before?? I bred a male albino to a female het and out of 7 perfect eggs, I got one albino... lol. Oh well, hopefully get better odds on my other clutches!

7 Hatchlings trump 7 slugs.

Jim Smith

[rabernet]

My first year breeding - two pastel clutches with a total of 10 eggs between the two. 1.1 pastels, 4.4 normals.

This year, a GORGEOUS clutch of 7 eggs - beautiful, plump, pearly white eggs.....not a vein in a single egg - a beautiful infertile clutch.

Feeling better now?

[boasandballs]

NO mine was worse. I got all hets and to make it worse. They were all MALES.

[FragginDragon]

Pair of 100% het albinos, two years of breeding, a total of 12 eggs, and zero albino's. Yep, I feel your pain. Hopefully the pendulum will swing back the other direction for you next year and you'll have 7 albinos staring at ya.

[JoeEllisReptiles]

My buddy bred a spider het. albino to a het albino. He produced both snakes so there was no way they were not hets. His results: 0 spiders, 0 albinos, 0 albino spiders, and 6 normals poss. het albino. Can't get much worse than that.

Joe Ellis

[Kevin_Hornby]

7 Hatchlings trump 7 slugs.

Jim Smith

We jus had 10 slug clutch.

[RhacHead]

First clutch Lesser pastel x Normal = 4good eggs one slug.Out of the four that hatched all four were normal! Yup I'd say it could be worse...

[OzarkMountainBalls]

Ok I have the worst yet.

I bred 0 snakes to 0 snakes last year. All I got was 0 eggs. Not even a slug..... Dang.
Lol seriously though it can always be worse. Grats on a healthy clutch though!!!

[Hacker79]

A few years ago I bred a male Mojave to a big normal female. I got nine eggs, incubated them, and sure enough the first one to pipped was a beautiful mojave. Being all excited to see how many more were in the clutch I quickly cut the others only to discover I had 8 normals in the remaining eggs....lol

That is just the way it goes some times, especially when you are talking about snakes like Ball Pythons which lay smaller clutches. If you breed enough it all evens out.