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I was hoping someone could help ease my concern... I have a 650 gram lesser male I am hoping to breed to several large females this season. My consern is the females look like they could crush the little guy. I know people use small males like this every season. I was hoping someone could post some photos of little guys with big girls.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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Dino W.

Here's a 600g male with a large female...
Michael

Thanks Michael
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Dino W.

Here is a picture of our 5 1/2 ft dwarf burm breeding a 12 ft albino granite. We were really concerned about the weight difference and him gettiing crushed (she was about 60 lb and he was less than 10 lb). He did fine and we got 19 babies.

I don't think a big female ball can do any damage to a small male.

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Randy and Michelle
Art In Scales
(719) 439-4199
info@artinscales.com

I had a question that kinda follows this topic. Is there ever a concern with a bigger female eating a smaller male even though you are trying to breed them?
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1.1 Normal Ball Pythons (Snakerton and Mathilda)
1.0 Het Albino Ball Python (Walter)
0.1 Albino Ball Python (Perrie)
1.1 Pastel Ball Python (Jasper and Trudy)
2.4 Breeder Rats
1.0 Red Ear Slider (Rufus)
1.0 English Bulldog[Red Brindle] (Jones)

I don't have a pic, but in 06-07 season we bred a 370g spider male to a 3500g female. we didn't get eggs but it was worth a try since he would try to breed your hand when you held him. He did fine, locked up and didn't get crushed.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

My best breeder last year was a 425 gram male. He had no problems breeding a 4000g female. I got 12 eggs out of her. How old is your lesser? The only thing to be careful with is to make sure you don't breed him with too many feamles or too often. Smaller males can get worn out and die if bred too hard but at 650g you should be fine.
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John Vandegrift

Thanks for all the input...just wanted to gather some opinions from others who have used smaller males. Not sure what his exact hatch date was but he is an 06 animal.
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Dino W.