Quote Originally Posted by dacalio View Post
I was talking to a breeder and he told me that sperm retention for this long is unlikely. Immaculate conception was thrown out there. Anyone know much about this? I mean actual documented cases and even genetic studies? I was told there are a few cases of this known in pythons.

In either case, it would seem this could throw a huge wrench in the het market for recessives. I know certain breeders are carefull of breeding females to different recessive males for subsequent years.

This could explain the weirdness of certain morphs just popping up randomly in people's collections.
When exactly did you get the snakes, and when was the last time they were grouped up? I heard up to 9 months is known, but I've been wondering about the whole het thing lately with females that were bred to a different male the previous year. It seems like females can retain for a long time, but I think I've only heard about late in the season girls throwing retained clutches, or new adult females, but I haven't heard of anyone getting a retained clutch from a girl that's been in someone's collection for more than a year, the following breeding season.