Next breeding project?

[Snakefood]

certainly sounds right if there's a danger of cannabalism. I guess that's the glaring difference between corns and kings!!

[Kingsnakechris]

Originally Posted by kernel

I guess I'm not needed Snakefood answered all you questions

LOL, I'm just kidding. All I can add is kingsnake genetics are just like corn snake genetics. Kings have all the same breeding rules as corns, you just have to watch the kings and make sure they don't eat each other,

any one willing to offer advice or answer my questions is infact needed LOL!

[Kingsnakechris]

Originally Posted by Snakefood

certainly sounds right if there's a danger of cannabalism. I guess that's the glaring difference between corns and kings!!

I thought corns were cannibalistic as well? I know nothing about corns tho lol.
I used to have a fairly large collection of 14 or 15 snakes but they were BP's and boa's. This is my first run with colubrids. I like my cal. Kings a lot (particularly my female) she doesn't bite anymore my male tho, well let's just say he doesnt like me to much lol the only real difference I've seen tho is they take some work to get them to tolerate handling. I miss my BP's tho I had to re home them when I enlisted in the army.. But I decided I wanted to try somthin different this time and figured id give breeding colubrids a shot.
Thanks again for all of the helpful advice. I really appreciate it.

[Snakefood]

I think corns are calmer than kings. They may be canabalistic of much smaller snakes than themselves, but you can to put male and female together and walk away, for days at a time.

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by Kingsnakechris

I'm planning on getting a few albinos soon and once I picked out my fav and sell off the rest I'll pick up a morph to breed with my het. I have a decent plan and my female being 50% het for albino is my ace in the hole lol!

Dude a 50% het is more like an ace to five straight you could win but there are much better hands. I recommend getting 100% het as a minimum. If you have something with multiple hets make sure at least on het is 100%.

[Kingsnakechris]

Hmmm, well looks like I'm going shopping soon...

[Kingsnakechris]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Dude a 50% het is more like an ace to five straight you could win but there are much better hands. I recommend getting 100% het as a minimum. If you have something with multiple hets make sure at least on het is 100%.

But it IS possible to produce albinos right? What if I were to breed her to an albino male? With her being 50% het. And the male being an albino himself would that better my chances?

[Snakefood]

here's how it works:

breed a male albino to a normal 50% het albino. (the normal only has a 50% chance of carrying the het)

If you get albino's out of the clutch, you've proven her het (now she is 100% het albino) if you don't get albino's then she does not carry the albino gene, but her normal babies will be 100% het albino

So yes, it gives you a better chance only in the aspect that if she were bred to another 50% het albino, getting only normals would mean that one or both do not carry the gene but the prob is, you don't know if it one or both who lack the het.

Breeding the 50% to a visible albino gives you a much better chance of proving or disproving the het and worst case scenario, you'll get normals who are 100% het for albino

Does this make any sense to you??

does that explain it better??

[Kingsnakechris]

Yes it does. Thank you very much for clearing that up. So when I breed her to a visible albino male even if I get normals I can still breed her babies and produce albinos? Sorry for the annoying questions im just trying tobget some help with my "homework"
Thanks a bunch!

[Snakefood]

Line breeding is better than inbreeding, so worst case she is not het, but now her babies are because you bred her to a male albino, it is better to breed a female baby back to the father than to breed brother to sister

[Snakefood]

And none of this is annoying, It's incredibly interesting and I love it, so ask away!

[Kingsnakechris]

Ok so female baby breed back to the father is better then brother sister. I wasn't planning on that tho, I was just gonna keep a male and female and sell the rest to buy another male and female to breed them with...

[Snakefood]

keep the male albino and a female baby, sell the rest, pick up what you can with that profit, and remember that albino gene can combine to make so many others, it's an important first gene to have so I would keep the visible male.

[Kingsnakechris]

Awesome. Thanks! I've been somewhat lost with all the morphs and instructions and combos lol but I'm pretty sure I'm gettin the hang of it LOL!

[Snakefood]

ya it takes a while to sink in, but now I can figure most combo's in my head. You'll get it too!!