Breeding Morphs

[Voodoo]

Hi I have been thinking of buying a new snake for months now and am finaly ready. I have also beenvery interested in breeding my ball python. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what my chances are if I aquire a male Heterozygous for Piebald or Albinism I would have one hatch if I breed him with my normal female ball. Also which of these Heterozygous would bemore succesful.

Thanks for your input.

[slyO]

If you breed a het albino or a het pied (recessive genes), to your normal, you will have in your litter normals and normal hets (albino or pied).

If you want to hatch some albinos or some pieds, you need (at least) that both parents carry the gene... (hets)

MORE SUCCESSFUL???

[gonesnakee]

If you breed a het albino or a het pied (recessive genes), to your normal, you will have in your litter normals and normal hets (albino or pied).

Yes & no, what you have said is true, but likely to confuse in this case. They will all appear as normals, but 1/2 of which should carry the albino or pied gene (depending on which snake was used), so one can't tell the Hets from the normals, so they would all be 50% possible hets, until they are either proven to be actual hets or not later in lfe by being bred back to albinos or pieds or snakes that are 100% het for. Even if 100% hets are used it may take a few seasons to prove things either way thus why it is prefered to use a visable morph. When a visable recesssive morph is bred to a normal, you know for sure they are all 100% het & when the visable morph is bred to the 50% pos hets it will be easier to prove or disprove them first time round. Make any sense to you there VooDoo? Remember that as slyO has stated

If you want to hatch some albinos or some pieds, you need (at least) that both parents carry the gene... (hets)

this being the key factor in producing recessives. So in reguarsd to being more successful the best bet is to get a 100% het of either & breed it to a visable morph of the same or at the least breed 100% het to a 100% het. The best odds being to breed an albino to an albino or a pied to a pied as they will all come out as visable morphs then. Mark

[taz19772005]

so if i had and 100% orange gohst male and i breed it to a normal female and i keep all the female from the cluch and breed it back to the male would i get the orange ghost hypo?

[gonesnakee]

If all the genes involved are recessive then all the babies would be 50% pos hets so yes when bred back to the 100% het male you would have a good chance but no guarantees. There is only a 50/50 chance they are acutual hets for starters & even when breeding guarranteed 100% hets to one another doesn't mean you will get any "visable morph" snakes hatching for sure. Just because the odds are 1/4 doesn't mean it will work that way. The "normals" from a het to het breeding are 66% pos hets, they are this because 1/4 "should" be the visable morph & the other 3/4 will appear normal but 2/3 of them will be hets but ya can't tell by looking thus the 66% pos hets. Thus it sometimes takes a year or 2 to prove out hets sometimes even when working with 100% ones. Confused yet LOL genetics give me a headache Mark