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I have a dilemma and would like to hear some opinions. I have two parings to finalize for this breeding season. Here is what I have:

1.0 Pure Hogg
1.0 Doug Matuzak (spelling?)Hypo
0.1 K Grade Rich Ihle Salmon
0.1 PK Albino

The Salmon female and the Hogg male are the parents of the baby pictured below. If it were you, would you Hogg x Salmon again and Hypo x Albino? Or would you Hogg x Albino and Hypo x Salmon? Please provide your reasoning so I can understand your point of view. If you are a purist, I respect your opinion but it will not stop me from crossing the Hogg as I equally enjoy localities as I do crosses.

Thanks for looking and thanks for your opinons.

Cross whatever you want to cross, I just want to say it looks Awesome. Do you have any that look just like this for sale. Count me in.

This is my hold back male from my July 2006 litter. I also held back all the females from this litter. Shoot me an email at zander2113@bellsouth.net if you want to chat about some of the other males from the litter.

to get some feedback from some of the more experienced breeders here in regards to which would be the best parings. Is it better to have het albino columbian/hogg crosses and just hypos? Or is it better to repeat the salmon/hogg cross that produced this baby and put my hypo male with the albino female?

I find the possibility of breeding down the size of an albino boa by crossing it with central american boas fascinating. Imagine an albino female boa that only gets 5 to 7 feet long instead of 8 to 10 plus. I just would not want to be stuck with a lot of columbian hogg crosses het albino that I could not sell. In either of the two possible sets of pairings that I have presented in this post I know I will have hets. What I am not sure of is if the het albino hogg crosses will be easier or harder to sell than the hets for sunglow and the normal hets from the hypo x albino breeding. What do you all think?

You would think that adding some Hog blood to Albinos would make for some NICE orange Albinos, and/or Sunglows. People seem to be very interested in the BCC/Albinos, so why not HOG/Albinos too.
I personally would dig it, but I'm not as opposed to crosses as most. Something to think about.
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Jason Dowell

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Things always get cloudy, just before transformation.

I agree with you. I guess it would take successive breedings with het albino hogg crosses to get the color to come out, I don't know how much hogg color would come through when diluted with a columbian. If I do pair the hogg and the albino together and get babies you can bet that in three years I am putting brother and sister pairs together to see what comes out.