Plans for Next Year

Thought I would share my plans for next year.

At this point in time I have the following cornsnakes:

Rootbeer Corn (Emoryi influence) het creamsicle male age unknown guess: 5+ years
Creamsicle Corn female age unknown guess 3 or more years old.

'02 Stripe Normal male het anery het amel
'02 Stripe Anery not het (that I know of) female
'02 Normal Het Motley, Anery, Amel female
'03 Snow Motley het Hypo male
'03 Anery het Hypo, Motley, Amel, Anery
'03 Anery male (probably will sell him)

I plan on breeding all but the two '03 Aneries

My thoughts are: Rootbeer x Creamsicle... I should get 50% Creamsicle, 50% Rootbeers.

Stripe x Stripe ... I should be able to prove if she is het anything... Last time she only had 5 eggs, and those were all normals.... SO, I might choose to breed her to the snow motley instead...

So If I breed her to the snow motley, I should get 100% anery stripe/motley IF she is not het for amel, or hypo.

(decisions decisions)

And I'll cross my Normal het amel, anery, motley to my snow motley, I should get Normals, Motleys, Amel Normals, Amel Motleys, Anery Normals, Anery Motleys, Snows, and Snow Motleys.... and both might be het hypo too... which would really increase the number of possibilities!

That will result in 3 clutches. That's the same I had this year. I'm actually inclined, now that I think about it, to leave the male stripe out of the loop this coming year, since he fathered three clutches last season and all three clutches were deformed. Perhaps with my unproven snow motley male, and my proven breeding pair of creamsicle/rootbeer, I'll get lucky this coming year.

SO... what are YOUR plans for next year?

well

Nothing very spectacular but let's see...

male ghost het amel with female Snow: results should be approximately 50% snow het hypo and 50% anery het amel het hypo

Male cinnamon with female cinnamon (cinnamon= hypo guttata/emoryi)
This will produce Cinnamons.
There is a possibility they are both het amel (cream)
If both are het amel (cream) then results....
50% hypo (cinnamon) het amel (cream)
25% sunglow creamsicles
25% hypo (cinnamon)

male stripe creamsicle to female creamsicle: results..100% creamsicles het stripe

Male Creamsicle to female creamsicle: results....100% creamsicles

male ghost het amel to female amel: results...50% amel het ghost, 50% normal het snow het hypo

undecided on this last pair
male okeetee to female normal....They should produce some very nice normals.
Next year I will be able to breed the male okeetee to a female okeetee

My "special" plans...

Don't seem to be terribly special, so I'll share:

Male X Female:
Pewter X Amel Stripe= Big mess of hets
Lavender het Opal X Amel Stripe= Small mess of hets and Small mess of Amel hets
BloodRed het Hypo X Hypo het SQG= Hypos het BR and het Hypo BR's
Amel Milk Phase X Okeetee het Amel and Hypo= Hatchlings that I just adore! Since they turned out so nice this year, I'm doing it again. These are my female keepers out of this pairing. I think one could possibly be considered an Okeetee Milk Phase! I also kept an Amel that is an awesome Milk Phase.
I should also have butters, butter motleys, pewters, charcoals, anerys, amels, amel motleys, opals, lavenders, and hopefully some ghosts.

hoping

I have not decided for sure if I will breed her yet, she is PROBABLY big enough (still need to weigh her in) and will put on more size in the coming months.... I have a normal motley (nice markings and rich red color) - no known hets - and I would like to cross her with my hypo striped male (poss het lav). They will probably be all normal mots and striped mots, but the variation in markings should be pretty, and they will all be het hypo.

charlene

Well, so far these are my plans:

Hypo Het Caramel x Het Hypo Het Caramel (same pairing I did this year; I'm hoping for more FEMALE Caramels and Ambers as I'm pretty sure all of those I got this year are male.)

Bloodred x Bloodred (one's a stunner the other one not so much; I'm hoping I can get a few females that will look like the dad)

Hypo Snow x Ghost poss Het Amel (I want to try to prove the Ghost out as Het Amel, besides I'd love to make my own Hypo Snows, so even if I don't get any next year, 2 years later I should get some.)

That's it.

This makes me realize what I'm still missing in my collection:
I need to get a female lavendar to match with my male bloodred and some motleys to mix with my Caramels and Ambers.

let's see...I'll have going on...

male x female
amel h. caramel anery x h. amel anery caramel p.h. motley
(should produce normals, amels, anerys, snows, caramels and butters)

(I have 2 multi het females, so he gets both this season)

My plans are very modest this year since none of my new snakes that are hypos/ghosts/motleys is old enough to breed yet. For the third time I will breed my normal het snow male with my zig zag snow female. I got him another snow girlfriend this year so, two batches of normal/amel/anery/snow, some'll be zig zags. The other female I have is hypo het ghost (my avatar) so if I breed that male with her I will get normal het hypos poss het anery & amel, and anery's het hypo poss het amel. Or if I breed her with my amel zz het anery male it'll be normals het hypo poss anery and anery's het hypo but these'd be definitely het amel instead of possibly. I haven't decided which of the two males to breed her to yet. Good luck to everyone breeding in the next season!

Little over here too

Amel 0.1 het caramel x Snow 1.0 will result in - Amels het for Anery and 50% het for caramel.

I'll keep 1.1 or 0.1 of the offspring and sell the rest to pay for some other colour morph. I have 4 little 2004 0.1's who I plan to breed with in 2006 but just one big girl for next year. I figure it's good to start small and pay close attention to what goes on with one clutch.

(OT) I'm part of a cornsnake forum through yahoo groups and there's a newbie there who'se just picked up trios in 9 morphs....so she has 27 little mouths to feed and 27 little bums to clean up after and then she want's to breed them all at once in 2006. ...and she's new to snakes!!! mad-woman I say!! ...my two cents!

This year i will breed my hypo male to my anery female.... according to the progency predictor: 100% normal het anery het hypo.... but, maybe i will have some surprises since i don't know what their parents were. :shrugs: :santa: I hope!!

My female amel stripped is too young and too small to breed this year so i will wait an extra year and breed her with my hypo in 2006!! maybe some surprises there too!!

I also plan to keep some of my baby het anery het hypo, to breed them with my female stripped amel. I love snows!!! maybe i will get some!

But, this is only PLANS.... maybe they won't breed, or... the eggs won't hatch... etc...

this year....I'm haven't decided 100% what crosses I'm going to do, but I know there won't be that many. Here's what I've decided on so far:

1.0 Lav het hypo, amel X 0.1 Snow het lav
1.0 Hypo lav het amel X 0.1 Hypo lav het amel
1.0 snow X 0.1 candycane amel het anery
1.0 normal het hypo, anery amel X 0.1 hypo het anery
1.0 "" X 0.1 amel het anery a & b, hypo
1.0 "" X 0.1 Anery het ????
1.0 snow pink and green X 0.1 Snow pink and green
1.0 hypo het carmel X 0.1 butter het hypo
1.0 Lav X 0.2 Lav
1.0 Sunglow motley X 0.1 Sunglow het motley
1.0 opal X 0.2 opal
1.0 charcoal motley het hypo X 0.1 charcoal ghost
1.0 Jungle corn X 0.1 amel jungle corn and 0.1 amel corn
1.0 amel bloodred X 0.1 hypo bloodred
1.0 pewter het hypo X 0.1 charcoal het hypo
1.0 hypo motley X 0.1 hypo stripe

These are about 60% mine, and 40% my partners. I've been having a rough time with some living arrangements and because of that, I've had to let alot of my stock go, so unfotunately thats all I'll have breeding this year. I should have a house by feb and hopefully by next year, I'll double it. I'm hoping that crossing some bloodlines with my partner will help deepen the gentic pool we have to work with though, so it shouldn't be too bad of a year.

Anyone ever hear from Sasheena? Looks like she hasn't been on the boards for quite some time and I was wondering if this season had treated her any better. :shrugs:

Hey!

Hey, it's nice to know that I'm "missed".

This year I had planned not to breed, but a couple of my corn snakes feel like having eggs anyway, so we'll see.

I've been "missing" so much because of several things. On January 3rd I began graduate classes and am working towards my Master's degree in education. That took a lot out of me. Then I decided to not work this summer so I could take twice as many graduate courses over the summer. That worked out fine, but before I knew what I was doing, I applied to be the summer school administrator, and also a summer school teacher. THEN I got a commission from a publisher to write 4 chapters for a textbook, and anothr commission from a second publisher to evaluate their textbook. And THEN I found out that my nephew was coming to stay for the summer. Finally I discovered that my husband's son has decided tentatively to come and live with us and go to school here in Arizona instead of in Oregon with his mother. With 2 graduate classes, an administrative position, teaching summer school, and being "mom" to a couple of teenage boys, not to mention my consulting work for various and sundry publishers, I'm exhaustively overwhelmed.

As far as breeding this year, I"m keeping it very simple. Snow motley male het (or homozygous hypo) being bred to my anery striped female and to my normal het amel het motley female. That's about it.

Wow! You sure have your hands full! Best of luck with your breeding and your summer in general!

Strange, I was also thinking about you the last week or two. Probably because I am starting to think it is time to go back to Az again soon (Sept, actually) to go to a couple of shows and to visit my brother and just enjoy Az.

Glad to hear you are fine, just very busy! I can see why you are trying to keep the animals to a reasonable amount of chores. But don't forget about us!

Hmm. *Rubs hands together* Does this mean you're going to the Tucson reptile show the end of September?

Well...at first I was going, and was going to be a speaker. Then I realized it would be the weekend between Anaheim and Chicago, so I couldn't go. Now we are thinking of making a big driving trip from Fl - Az - Ca - Il and go on a big route, setting the babies up at my brother's house for a while in between shows. So we may still get to the Tucson show (assuming they still have space for us). it all depends if we can buy an economical car that can fit the basics of what we need for us and the shows. And if our "snake-sitters" work out (actually, the a/c will be on full blast and the lights off during that time - "winter" in Florida early, to get early babies and allow us to travel then).

So I can't say for sure yet, but I am hoping so.

wow~ on two counts!

Sasheena~ I've really been thinking about you a lot lately~ and missing you! I just took two math courses at the same time this year~ Intermediate Algebra and Geometry. I did well again on both classes~ but I missed visiting with you during the semester!! I'm glad to hear things are going well for you~ don't forget about us little math dummies who need your help! (and I would have loved to gossip with you about how handsome my geometry teacher was.....but thats okay~ he's teaching Trig next semester~ which you KNOW I have to take with such a hottie teaching it......so I"ll need your help to pass the course! LOL!)

Kathy~ are you gonna be here for the Anaheim show this year? If so~ you know I want to BBQ for you if you can pull any free time (if not I won't be insulted)! I'll e-mail tomarrow to harass you!

Sasheena~ don't forget about us~ we've certainly not forgotten you! Good to see you again!

YES, YES, YES! I REALLY, REALLY want to FINALLY get to Anaheim this year!

Mmmmm...BBQ...Mmmm...can I bring hubby and my brother?? Hubby has a wonderful guacamole (sp?) recipe and he makes it great!

Really looking forward to visiting with you!

Absolutely! The more the merrier............mmmmmmm..........I love Guacamole!

I've really got to save my pennies so I can make Anahiem too. I went the year before last and it was the best show this West Coaster has seen.