There are no inherent problems with feeding, growing, and breeding Pieds. Feel free to peruse the clutch records pages of our web site linked below. We have been raising and breeding Pieds, Het Pieds, and their combo's for years. The males typically breed their 2nd winter, and the females their 3rd. Just like any other ball python... Except Pastels. My experiences with them is a little different than Brandon's. We struggled ridiculously with them until we got the Pied gene into the Pastel. Our Pastel Het Pied and Pastel Pieds have done fantastic, the single-gene Pastels were terrible.
-Paul