A Couple of Breeder Loans

[SnakeGirl3]

So a local girl and myself have decided to do a few joint projects for the 2010-2011 season. So far, the season is starting off well. ;) I was providing both of the males and Sandy was providing both of the females for the projects, so I've loaned my boys to her. The following pics were taken by her.

Male blackback het albino (my snake) X female albino (Sandy's snake):
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd83/PythonPassion/Ball%20Pythons-Breeder%20Loans/AlchemyandHenna1.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd83/PythonPassion/Ball%20Pythons-Breeder%20Loans/AlchemyandHenna2.jpg
Btw, the shed skin in the cage belongs to the another mature male--a trick Sandy was using since her albino was in shed and the pair weren't breeding.)

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd83/PythonPassion/Ball%20Pythons-Breeder%20Loans/AlchemyandHenna3.jpg

I don't really know for sure if the male's blackback is genetic or not. I've bred him to a couple of normals in the past, and a few of the babies did have some blackbacks (2 out of a 9-egg clutch appreared to have blackbacks and markings similar to his, and 1 out of another 7-egg clutch). Sandy and I both are kinda hoping for whiteback albinos, but time will tell I suppose. :p

Our second joint project is male piebald (my snake) X female het piebald (Sandy's snake):
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd83/PythonPassion/Ball%20Pythons-Breeder%20Loans/HerculesandKyriel1.jpg

The male is still rather small--he weighs around 600 grams as of now, but he is producing sperm plugs. He's actually an '08 animal, and when I got him back in March this year, he only weighed 270 grams. Since then, he's fed regularly for me (until about 3 weeks ago when he became sporadic) on a weekly diet of rats rather than a maintenance diet of mice, and I think that's really helped him to gain weight. He's such a sweetheart, too. ;) No locks from him yet, but here's to hoping! :D

[Bob O'Brien]

Good luck, I hope everything works out!

[SnakeGirl3]

Thanks much! :)

[gsrept]

looks good, i just hope you don't get burned, breeding loans seem to never work out.

[Cp3_Pythons]

looks good, i just hope you don't get burned, breeding loans seem to never work out.



:iagree: But wish you the best of luck with that Hope you hit the odds on the whole clutch :D

[cmbpboa9]

Good luck on the white back albino project. I hope the pied male will lock for you guys. Good luck to you both!!!!

[SnakeGirl3]

Thanks much guys!

I think this breeder loan will work out OK. The only thing I'd really like to get out of the pairings myself is a female albino. Out of the pied clutch, I wouldn't mind having a female pied, but it's not the end of the world if I don't. ;) The girl who's doing the project with me does not yet have a visual pied, so I told her if the clutch was to yield just one, she's welcome to keep it since I already have one. I'm not really in it for major animals--just something the two of us decided on to help her get a visual pied and myself a visual albino. I had nothing else to put the pied to this year, and she didn't have a male het albino. Once we see what we've got, we'll either jointly sell the rest of the babies, or split them up as evenly as possible and sell them. But I'm not really doing this for the cash, anyway, and I really don't think she is either. And she's local, so I think that will help a lot when it comes to the joint project--I'm not big on shipping out animals for breeder loans (and have actually never done it). This is my first joint project with anyone, and this particular person is probably one of the few I'll ever do projects with--I've known her for a few years now, and I know she takes good care of her animals, as I have seen most (if not all) of her animals firsthand, and many of her setups.

[Quiet Tempest]

Thanks for the kind words, Pam! :)

Here are some more recent pics for you.


http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1457/cimg6435.jpg
12-09-2010


http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1403/cimg6461.jpg
12-10-2010

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9837/cimg6460w.jpg
12-10-2010

[Utta]

good luck you two! :D hope you both get what you want! :D

[SnakeGirl3]

Thanks much! I'm just glad the pied finally seemed to get breeding figured out. LOL Hopefully he'll continue to lock up and produce some nice half-white babies. :p

[ReptilesAnonymous]

Nice lock with the Pied! Congrats!

[Quiet Tempest]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4005/img0445xg.jpg


I'm not entirely sure if this is the beginning or tail end of an ovy but she's been favoring the cool end of her tub for a little while now and I just found her like this. It's certainly possible that it's just further 'building' but I figured it was worth snapping a pic to share either way. :)

[snakesRkewl]

Good luck with the recessive projects, good stuff :thumbsup: