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This is my beautiful White Sided Bull. She's about eight months old, I got her a month after she hatched. The PICS do her no justice as my camera is a cheap one. I only heard about these kind of Bull over the past year. What kind of Bull's do you cross to get this kind of mutation, or subspecies. I assume this is man made. Thanks.
A whiteside bull is the result of a simple recessive gene. This means that you could breed yours to a wild type bull and produce all heterozygous animals. That means that all of the offspring are carrying the gene for whiteside however do not show it in their external appearance. If you were to then breed one of the offspring back to the parent, you would theoretically get 50% whiteside bulls and 50% heterozygous animals. Of course if you just want to produce more whitesides, you could buy a mate for yours. Breed them together and all of the offspring will be whiteside. Hope this helps! Take care!
Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy! That does help a lot. Even though I've been keeping snakes since I was a a pre teenager, I never learned about hypos and hets or done any breeding. Kind of embarrassing.
No need to be embarrased! Glad to be able to help. Take care!
Jeremy
One thing Jeremy forgot to mention is yours appears to be a Bell line white sided and the one jeremy posted is a trumbower line animal. attached is a picture of a hypo bred into the trumbower line for the resultant look.
John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
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