Who's your daddy?

[FIREball]

When breeding in large scale operations how do you know who the dad is? Do you only use one male on each female? And pass the male down the line and have him breed with certain females? Would you ever have a male with a female and once hes been in there 5-7 days put a different male in with the 1st female? Hope this isnt confusing.

[Freakie_frog]

Most use a program like Degei that keeps track of locks and off spring and will allow you to specify how many eggs, and then it labels the offspring and even does a family tree.

Really useful.

[dcgator24]

No the large scale breeders won't run a different morph male through the same females. Now they may have several male breeders of the same morph and run them both through the same females. It would just screw things up to use different morph males on the same females. They have certain projects they're trying to produce. For recessive het females, they use a male of that morph, not some other morph. The only case where they would use different males is if they don't care what they produce, or if one male isn't breeding so the smell of another male may get him in the mood.

[Thomas Jones]

Alot lot of breeders BIG and small DO put different males in with the same male. They will run different Dominant morphs and co dom morphs to the same female trying to reduce the number of normals they produce in a clutch. You can get 2-3 or more morphs from one female if you are lucky. As far as simple reccessives I have no clue. Unless they are possible double hets or actual double hets they may run different males to the same girl.

[J.Vandegrift]

Alot lot of breeders BIG and small DO put different males in with the same male. They will run different Dominant morphs and co dom morphs to the same female trying to reduce the number of normals they produce in a clutch. You can get 2-3 or more morphs from one female if you are lucky. As far as simple reccessives I have no clue. Unless they are possible double hets or actual double hets they may run different males to the same girl.

I agree many people use multiple males, but it will not affect how many normals are produced. Whether you use 1 male codom/dom morph or 10, your eggs still have a 50/50 shot of being a morph (assuming you are using a normal female).

[Nate]

No the large scale breeders won't run a different morph male through the same females. Now they may have several male breeders of the same morph and run them both through the same females. It would just screw things up to use different morph males on the same females. They have certain projects they're trying to produce. For recessive het females, they use a male of that morph, not some other morph. The only case where they would use different males is if they don't care what they produce, or if one male isn't breeding so the smell of another male may get him in the mood.

Speak for yourself

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48973

[Adam_Wysocki]

No the large scale breeders won't run a different morph male through the same females.

Actually, it's extremely common.

Hope this helps.

-adam

[Blue Apple Herps]

Actually, it's extremely common.

Hope this helps.

-adam

I'm curious why this is; or why it has any advantages. Do you see a higher than 50/50 split between morphs and normals if you breed two different morphs to one female (I woulddn't think so)? Or is it simply so that one female might produce two different morphs? Why would this be advantageous over breeding those same males with two different females?

[Nate]

I'm curious why this is; or why it has any advantages. Do you see a higher than 50/50 split between morphs and normals if you breed two different morphs to one female (I woulddn't think so)? Or is it simply so that one female might produce two different morphs? Why would this be advantageous over breeding those same males with two different females?

read this thread:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48973

[Blue Apple Herps]

read this thread:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48973

That really didn't answer my question though.