Thinking of breeding my 3 yr old normal next year

[james]

Hi guys I've got a 3 yr old normal sasha which I'm thinking of breeding next year , I know that this is a silly question to you old hats out there in the snake world but what would be the best male type to bred her with. Any successions . Sorry about the silly question .:shrugs:

 

[Buzzard]

If you do not know of any recessive genes(hets) that she might have, then bred her with something with lots of hets or a snow with known(proven) hets. This will increase the possibilities of getting just about anything. This will also help you figure out what she might have as her recessive genes, which will help you pair her up for future breedings.

Just make sure you are ready for the task. Hatchlings can be time consuming and research and preparation is the key for first timers.....Good luck...

There are no stupid questions, ask away.... Also use the search feature in the forum, it might answer a lot of your questions.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

In continuance to what Buzzard said, if you are unlucky and your snake ends up not being het for anything (or not being het for what you breed it with) your result will be 100% normal offspring. So possibly breed it with something that has as many morphs in it as you can afford, and hope your normal is heterozygous for something. Amel and anery can be pretty common hidden hets, so that's somewhere to start.

 

[AliCat37]

Make sure you have some people who are interested in buying your babies too, it's been hard to get rid of the hatchlings I have, as they are all normal amels. Babies do take a lot of work.. haha. Do you breed your own mice? i have a few mice that I breed for pinkies, when they don't have a litter I buy, but having the mice have saved me a bunch of money in pinkies! I tend to freeze all but two or three from my litters.

 

[Landis01]

How exactly do you get a snake that is het for nothing? Do you just keep breeding hets that don't match up until you're left with a blank slate? It's something I've always wondered about...

 

[james]

Thanks guys,It will be a big project for me this year planning for next year. Planning on doing a facebook page and maybe a web site this I will use for advertising . Funny that buzzard mentioned using a snow that is what I was maybe going to get a male snow. I don't bred my own mice at moment but have been playing with the idea, but I don't have a co2 chamber.Is freezing the pinkies human.Again thank you all for your help.

 

[Pasodama]

How exactly do you get a snake that is het for nothing? Do you just keep breeding hets that don't match up until you're left with a blank slate? It's something I've always wondered about...

Most wild corns are het for nothing. Some may be het for something, like Anery, but most are het for nothing.
Also, some breeders keep their lines "pure" (i.e. no hets) ... such as with locality corns.
Also, if a morph ... let's say Ghost ... a Ghost is homozygous Anery & Hypo. It is possible to have a Ghost, that has no hets (and is simply homozygous Anery & Hypo), if it's parents were Ghosts without any hets, or Normals/Classics that were ~only~ het for Hypo & Anery.
I could go on ...

Edit: BTW If you keep breeding corns, that have hets (even if they do not match up), together ... it would be quite the feat to end up with corns without hets (a blank slate). The law of averages is that you would always wind up with corns that have some het or another ... and, eventually, some of those will match up.

 

[james]

please do the more I know the more I'll understand. It's a lot to take in but I want to learn as much as I can over this coming year plenty of research before my breeding project begins.as well as snow I was considering lavender too.