starting to get into breeding, any good morphs?

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by Norm66

re: "higher end morphs also i.e. high white pied" it was my understanding that a pied was a pied so far as what it would produce. In other words a high white might produce low white offspring and vice-versa. I don't remember where I read that but I do remember it.

Obviously, multi gene animals will speed up the production of higher end (ie. more gene) animals.

As far as what morphs to get, two pieces of advice I've read are a) to decide what you want to produce and get morphs that will help toward that goal, and b) get morphs you personally find appealing by themselves. It'll be a lot more fun raising snakes that you think are cool than otherwise. I'm not sure we'll ever actually breed our snakes or not but I've purchased the ones that will help me produce my 'dream snake'.

re: pieds, its like a bell curve. Consider it on a scale of 1-10, 10 being best. Breed a 10 and a 5 and you'll get mostly 7s and 8s, with some approaching 10 and some approaching 5. Take one of those 7/8s and breed it with a 10 and you've moved the bell curve up. Sure you'll get some below 5 or 7 or whatever, but the likelihood of getting 10s increases. Just selective breeding.

The last bit is good advice, breed what you want that will give you what you want to produce.

[Norm66]

Originally Posted by millertime89

re: pieds, its like a bell curve. Consider it on a scale of 1-10, 10 being best. Breed a 10 and a 5 and you'll get mostly 7s and 8s, with some approaching 10 and some approaching 5. Take one of those 7/8s and breed it with a 10 and you've moved the bell curve up. Sure you'll get some below 5 or 7 or whatever, but the likelihood of getting 10s increases. Just selective breeding.

But with pieds, what's a 10 and what's a 5? Some people like high whites, some like low whites. I like medium or low whites personally but I know some people probably prefer high whites.

I understand selective breeding, but if what I read is correct it doesn't apply to pieds so far as how much white is apparent. I really wish I could find where I read that...I'm starting to wonder if I imagined it.