Whitespot male breeding his offspring female....

[Todd]

This is really cool because we dont really know if this male carries a Pied gene or not.This is the first time we have been able to bred him back to one of his females.

You can see 2 white spots on his neck area,these are not scars.
I have shown pics of him to Tracey Barker and she says that they have a female just like him and she calls it a reduced Pied.

We have our fingers crossed but if he isnt Pied we still love the old guy.

I guess thats the real fun of it,not knowing what your going to get......

Thanks,
Todd.

[Manitoban Herps]

That looks perrty cool, I don't know how you sleep at night, knowing you could prouduce some pieds in a few years...

[Todd]

Well we may have some out this coming year because thats his daughter he is breeding so she could be het for it??

Either way we will be happy with any of his babies.

Todd.

[Manitoban Herps]

cool, that would be awesome, but it is awesome to have babys any colour....!

[honduranfreekk]

Hmmm looks the same as this one also has a BIG white spot and a small one NOT a scar :) Tod if your interested in purchasing another one let me know ;) http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/954black_back_4-med.JPG http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/954Black_back_3-med.JPG

Kelvin@Brigitte;)

[Tim_Cranwill]

In my opinion, there's NO way those are pieds. Pieds have a very unique "normal" part to them. Even the low-white pieds have this strange pattern "mutation" on the colored areas. It's definitely worth breeding and "proving out" (I would do the same) but I would bet $10 to your $1 that they aren't pied in any way, shape or form.

Best of luck with the projects and keep us posted though. I would be more than happy being wrong in this case but I doubt I am. :(

JMHO :)

[Todd]

Yes it shall be interesting.

Time will tell.

I would be interested in that other one posted above if its a female?

[Bristen]

I think that would classify as a "bull's eye", and from what I could understand, they are not at all related to the pied genetics... as previously mentionned, pieds are very obvious because of their pattern anomaly.. I'm not sure, but I think that bull's eye balls have not proved to be geneticly reproducable either... anybody else heard/understood that?

Bristen.

[BoidKeeper]

I'm with Bristen on this one. The Sutherlands have an article about bulls eye and ringer balls on their website.
Cheers,
Trevor

[Todd]

Normals are nice too!!

Todd.

[hooked]

I agrea with Bristen They are "bull's eye's and from what I understand they Have never been proven geneticly reproducable.

Sorry Tod this one is a male also.

Kelvin@Brigitte

[honduranfreekk]

OOOPS lol I posted that Under my roomates name lol

[Bristen]

Todd, normals are fine if they are called normals and not "possible pied gene carriers" or "reduced pied" as these terms would be misleading in my opinion.

Bristen.

[Todd]

I guess I will know what to call them when they hatch,right???

peace
Todd.