Just an interesting story thought you would all like to hear. I bread a 2001 NERD 100% Het Carmel male to 3 normal females. I got 3 clutches, 4,5 and 7 eggs. All hatched, all are females. I know I know, I sexed them wrong right? I popped and probed multiple times. I even had another breeder sex them and he came up with females as well. I went back to a clutch of 50% het pieds and used the 4.1 as a control.

No matter how you slice it, I got all females. I was hoping for 4 or 5 to continue my Carmel project. Doesnt get much better than that.

Has anyone else had this happen before? I wasnt going to breed that male this year, but now I feel like I have to. What if he gives all females again? He would definitely up his own worth for sure.

Tom Siegrist
Siegrist Reptiles
727-505-4676

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• 0.16 ----What are the odds? - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 12:45:59 2006
• Technically speaking..... - JP, Mon Aug 28 12:52:44 2006
• RE: Technically speaking..... - cid143ti, Mon Aug 28 13:12:40 2006
• RE: Technically speaking..... - toshamc, Mon Aug 28 13:25:08 2006
• It's the male...np - bpconnection, Mon Aug 28 15:24:57 2006
• Pretty sure it's the female - RandyRemington, Tue Aug 29 00:43:54 2006
• Randy...another possibility - rwoodyer, Tue Aug 29 13:03:29 2006
• Lots of possibilities - RandyRemington, Tue Aug 29 19:25:08 2006
• Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... - jeff favelle, Mon Aug 28 19:01:25 2006
• RE: 0.16 ----What are the odds? - dwherp, Mon Aug 28 13:45:58 2006
• that is what I was hoping.... - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 15:00:36 2006
• RE: that is what I was hoping.... - Herpout, Mon Aug 28 20:37:38 2006
• temps during incubation.... - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 23:17:01 2006