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I seem to always miss the "morph" in the wild!
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vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
Excellent.
Chip
Former hobby breeder
I thought I should update this thread. Since the old picture links are long gone, here's a look at the original snake after he grew up. I don't know if the grandfather pictured is still alive, but I'm keeping 1.2 grown offspring that don't belong to me. Every year there has been something that's thrown my breeding trial. One year both females laid under their laying box and I missed them. The few I eggs I was able to save produced only normal corns. One year one girl slugged out and the other hatched out all normal babies. I got two clutches this year, and felt that I HAD to prove this trait out. TBC....
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Chip
Former hobby breeder
Things were looking great in terms of healthy eggs and a decent number. I had 16 viable eggs between the two females. One always lays a few huge ones, and the other lays normal sized eggs in greater quantity. No idea why that would be with them getting the exact same care, feeding, etc.. But the eggs from both girls were laid on the same exact day and started hatching on Wednesday evening. When I checked yesterday morning I wanted to cry. 11 out, and all normal. Was this not a simple recessive gene? Was the wc female the original male bred to already fertilized by a wild male? I was trying to find any way to explain this. I have hatched so many eggs now and not one white baby black snake.
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Chip
Former hobby breeder
So I decided to move the babies out and into tubs. I have been fattening these up for a couple of months and releasing them. Males get turned loose in woods near my house and the females get turned loose at a friend's farm about 30 miles away. I figured that this wouldn't be a great trait for survival, so why risk encouraging it in the wild? As I counted and popped babies, I realized that there are 3 or 4 eggs still to hatch. And what do you know!!! I'm so excited I did a dance when I saw this. I could be wrong, but I'm 95% sure this is a white nose sticking out.
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Chip
Former hobby breeder
I am really hoping it's a male. My het male is 6.5 feet long and it would probably take 4 years without overfeeding to get a female up to size to breed to him. "He's" still in the egg this morning so I have cut it open to encourage leaving the shell. It's so weird to me that the odds have been so out of my favor.