Breeding guestion??

[John1982]

I have a normal male I plan on breeding sometime after he finishes quarantine. He'll have been with me a year come June, maybe he'll meet the ladies next season.

This isn't something I would advise to someone who's in it to win it with the big bucks. I just dig his banded pattern and wouldn't mind tying it into a project or two.

[GregsMoko]

What are you breeding him to john?

[satomi325]

False.


Normals are stepping stones to great things.
Some normals are ordinary, but some can be extraordinary.
A fantastic example of a normal can enhance the look of a morph.

For example, check this thread out.
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-are-soooo-hot!

This is Gale's fire thread. She bred a phenomenal normal to her fire. The fire offspring are A+ quality and far surpass the Fire sire because of the traits they inherited from their normal mum.

[Phantomtip]

I have 2 normal girls I'm going to try next year. They are both extremely dark. I love the darker morphs. I also have a yellow belly boy and pastel something boy. All my snakes are virgin. It all depends on what you want to add with the normal. Clean lines, a darker, or lighter colors, and different patterns. I've been doing my research. On any dominant and codominent breeding to normal will give half and half. Recessive to normal will be hets. They wont look like the visual morph but will carry the genes to make that morph. If you have 2 hets you're breeding babies will have visual. If you're breeding a visual recessive to het will have visual babies.

[GregsMoko]

Most of everything I've heard of is something bred to a normal female bred by something else, how about normal male to something, this is moko, he's what I'll be using.

[GregsMoko]

Here's another pic so you can see moko a bit better and I'm open to comments about what would go good with him, also what's the incubation period for the eggs? Thanks for your imput

[Freakie_frog]

I sell normals for 25.00 each at shows. So if you've got 4 normal females at an average of 6 eggs each thats $600.00 that's worth it to me.

[Pythonfriend]

i would not breed a normal male. not to anything. i especially would not breed normal to normal.

normal females are a different story, but normal males are quite useless for breeding. if you want to work with stellar examples of normal BPs in order to improve other morphs using line-breeding, then go for stellar examples of normal females.

its a lot of work. and it can be rewarding to breed a male fire to a really awesome-looking normal female to get some better-looking fires. but given how much work and effort goes into it, i would rather invest more time in researching the market and pay more and buy a really good example of the fire-morph to begin with. or you could also breed a mediocre-looking fire to a really stunning and bright and reduced-pattern top quality pastel, and also get a nicer fire. and pastels and fireflys on top.

but then, different people have different goals. if your goal is to produce the very best calico pastel the world has ever seen using linebreeding, you may need a few carefully selected normals for that. but generally most people want to improve in the number of genes and combos they produce and also in quality, both at the same time in a continuous process.

[Artemisace]

I'll be breeding my male pinstripe to my normal girl t this season.


I think they will make some beautiful pins and normals together.

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[John1982]

What are you breeding him to john?

Nothing spectacular, probably a pastel and fire female just to see how he effects the offspring.