Becky and I have talked about potentially breeding our BPs down the line when ours grow up. All of our current ones are 2011 babies so it's obviously still a few years off but this is when we need to start planning whether we decide to actually go through with it or not.
My plan is to have two males and four females over the next few months and down the road have the two boys each breed two of the girls. We'll be buying all babies and most likely all single morph animals.
What we have:
Boys- normal (most likely won't be bred), an enchi and a pastel.
Girls- Pinstripe.
The morphs all seem to be pretty good examples though I know that pastels tend to brown out so we'll watch and only breed him if he's above average.
So that leaves us needing to get 3 females. I would like to
eventually produce something along the lines of the first two shown in this thread (sorry, another forum:
Enchi-Mojave-YB Post shed Pics - Bush-League Breeders Club)
That means we still need a Yellow Belly and a Mojave female though I think a lesser in that mix would also look great. Lessers and Mojaves both appeal to me just as single morphs so I like the idea of them. The yellow belly doesn't so much but it seems integral to the project I have in mind (plus the possibilities of producing ivories further down the line).
Initially I'm thinking of breeding the pastel to the pinstripe (potential lemon-blast) and maybe a mojave (potential pastave) both of which I think are great looking plus seem like popular combos. Then the enchi to the lesser (or butter) and the yellow belly would both be potential stepping stones to my goal of producing something like the one in the link above. Plus the 2nd generation would then have the possibility of producing BELs (super mojave or lesser or combo) and maybe Ivory (yellow belly super) but of course that's 6 years down the road.
Like I said, this is early days and we may not even go through with it when it comes time. My main interest is in having cool looking snakes to raise and enjoy primarily as pets but have the possibility down the line of breeding them with something resembling a plan rather than just throwing stuff together.
Any suggestions or obvious mistakes in reasoning I've overlooked are more than welcome. I'm just bounding ideas around in my head and this seemed like a good idea to get some structure to them.
Thanks for reading.
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