Jr Nimeskern
Snake lover for lifer
I was just wondering what was everyones ratio of Male to Female corns? I have 7.12 thanks for replying just trying to figure on whats the average...
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M/F Ratio on corns...
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Herphilious Lunacious
My distrtibution might seem balanced looking at the big picture, which is something like 51 males and 48 females, I think. The trouble is I'm too diverse, so even with all my corns I have several 1.1 pairs (1 pair each of: amber, sunglow, pewter, hypo-lav, charcoal, snow motley, butter motley, stripe, amel motley, upper-keys, okeetee, amel milksnake phase, ...) Also, I have a strange assortment in my multi-hets like only 2 males het lav & motley... So, my "balance" isn't really so balanced because I don't have any great guarantee of producing any of those in any given season, but the payoff in the variety is nice, and I'm frankly not too concerned about the "odds"... if I don't get any given female to produce it's not the end of the world.
^Curtis
^Curtis
Kat
I'm talkin' to YOU.
Currently, I have 9 males and 8 females, though 1.2 corns are too small to even think about breeding this year. If I ever find my missing normal het bloodred, I'll have an even spread, though still only 6 breeders.
-Kat
PS (Curtis, are you counting the 2.1 corns I'm sending you on Monday?
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-Kat
PS (Curtis, are you counting the 2.1 corns I'm sending you on Monday?
)Darin Chappell
Very Senior Hillbilly
My ratio is 8:12, male:female. I have some animals that won't breed this year either, but I have some that will be producing a lot for me. Some of my males are designated only for a specific female (my 1.1 okeetees and 1.1 crimsons), but other males will be bred with several females of various morphs.
I have a motley snow corn that will definitely be bred to my amel motley, and my banded motley females, but he may also be interoduced to a reverse okeetee I have (I'd like to produce some really stunning reverse okeetee motley babies in a few years! ) However, if my male lav is big enough to breed this spring, I'll put him in with my amel female and my motley amel to try for some opals, motley lavs, and motley opals in '05.
My bloodred male will definitely be breeding my het for BR female, and a possibly het female too. I also have an anery female het for amel that I want to cross him with. In '04, I expect to breed him to my amel bloodred female, and possibly breed my hypo bloodred females to him and a hypo bloodred male in '05.
So, though I have 2:3 ratio of males to females, I still don't use each male the same way. It just depends upon who's ready to breed and what strikes my fancy as to what I'm looking for at the time.
The absolute best scenario, in my opinion, is to breed two males to a single female that will either guarantee all the same morph in the clutch (ie: two hypo males to a hypo female) or diverse enough genetics to be able to tell the parentage apart by looking at the babies. If I breed both my motley snow and my lav to my reverse okeetee, all of the amels will be het snow and motley and all of the normals will be het lav and amel. The two males not having any shared characteristics will allow me to tell their offspring apart even though they're from the same clutch. This practice also increases the fertility rate of your females in the process, so it's a win-win, if you do it right.
I have a motley snow corn that will definitely be bred to my amel motley, and my banded motley females, but he may also be interoduced to a reverse okeetee I have (I'd like to produce some really stunning reverse okeetee motley babies in a few years! ) However, if my male lav is big enough to breed this spring, I'll put him in with my amel female and my motley amel to try for some opals, motley lavs, and motley opals in '05.
My bloodred male will definitely be breeding my het for BR female, and a possibly het female too. I also have an anery female het for amel that I want to cross him with. In '04, I expect to breed him to my amel bloodred female, and possibly breed my hypo bloodred females to him and a hypo bloodred male in '05.
So, though I have 2:3 ratio of males to females, I still don't use each male the same way. It just depends upon who's ready to breed and what strikes my fancy as to what I'm looking for at the time.
The absolute best scenario, in my opinion, is to breed two males to a single female that will either guarantee all the same morph in the clutch (ie: two hypo males to a hypo female) or diverse enough genetics to be able to tell the parentage apart by looking at the babies. If I breed both my motley snow and my lav to my reverse okeetee, all of the amels will be het snow and motley and all of the normals will be het lav and amel. The two males not having any shared characteristics will allow me to tell their offspring apart even though they're from the same clutch. This practice also increases the fertility rate of your females in the process, so it's a win-win, if you do it right.