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Hey gang! anyone producing these this season...??

I remember some years back there were issues with fertility and the bloodline being weak, but I have to assume that by now those concerns have been hammered out....

Thoughts...

byron.d

I bought a pair of baby Ghosts (1.1) from Brian at B.H.B. in 2002. At that time he explained to me that he had fertility problems when breeding Ghost x Ghost. He said that he outbred them to other cal kings. In 2004 my female Ghost would NOT breed the male. All she wanted to do was kill him. I did not breed her in 2004, but I did breed my male Ghost to an albino female. I have one male from that breeding that I kept. No fertility problems in that breeding. He is a double het(albino & Ghost). He is pictured below. In 2005 I tried breeding my Ghosts and again the female Ghost wanted to kill the male Ghost...so I put my big Albino High White male in with her. She tried to attack him twice and I had to thump her head both times before the male Albino High White was able to breed her. No fertility problems as she laid 7 eggs and all 7 hatched. That is when I found out that she (female Ghost) is also het for albino. Out of the seven eggs, 5 turned out to be albino, 100% het for Ghost. Unfortunately all 7 happen to be male. Interesting about this pairing is THAT ALL 7 HAVE ORANGE ON THEIR BELLIES ! ! This year she tried to kill the male Ghost again. It is an immediate response, she obviously does not like her sibling brother. So I bred a bigger male (Hypo from Great Valley Serpentarium-what he calls a "Lavender". She is now due to lay eggs any day. Last year I bred my male Ghost to a large female Mendota (hypermelanistic) and she laid 9 eggs, all hatched producing double hets (hypermelanism & Ghost). I will be breeding some of them back to each other next year. This year I bred my male Ghost to an Albino High Yellow female and to my 18 month old Albino High White Reverse Stripe female. The Albino High White Reverse Stripe female laid 6 good eggs.

So, no fertility problems when bred to other cal kings. I have no idea about breeding Ghost x Ghost yet. Next year will be the first year that I will produce Ghosts...of course they will all be possible hets for something else as well LOL

Kerby...

my buddy has 1.2 Ghsot cali kings, he bred them this season both females laid their eggs, one clutch is 100% ok the other he told me most of the eggs went bad.

i think he got about 16 in the good clutch.

~ZF
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