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Can someone with more experience please help me make a good decision. Im considering a purchase of a boa for my female. The father of this clutch was sunglow and the mother was salmon het for albino. Am i correct the outcome would have been 50% sunglow 50% salmon x het albino. All the sunglows were sold leaving the clutchmates. So if the boa is salmon het for albino is bred to a normal what will be the outcome ? Thanks Bryan

You will only get sunglows or albinos if your current boa is het for albinism.

Otherwise they will all be hypo or normal looking possible het for albino. No albinos. No sunglows.
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>>Can someone with more experience please help me make a good decision. Im considering a purchase of a boa for my female. The father of this clutch was sunglow and the mother was salmon het for albino. Am i correct the outcome would have been 50% sunglow 50% salmon x het albino.

Not necessarily, unless one or both of the parents was Homozygous Salmon. Salmons have a Normal gene as well. So either parent can pass that gene on to the offspring. So unless luck is with you, you will have some normals in the litter. But, since the Sunglow is Albino, the entire clutch will be 100% het for albino.

>>All the sunglows were sold leaving the clutchmates. So if the boa is salmon het for albino is bred to a normal what will be the outcome ? Thanks Bryan

A DH Salmon bred to a normal will be "statistically" 50% Salmon, and 50% Normal. Since only one parent is het for albino, the entire litter will be 50% het Albino. Meaning, 50/50 chance of the offspring being Het Albino. No Sunglows or albinos will come from this pairing, as only one parent is a carrier of the albino gene.
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Richard Carew
Sunset BCI
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Just noticed a typo in Richard's post. He meant DH Sunglow not DH Salmon and since the original poster was new to genetics I just didn't want to get him confused.

LOL Yep! Thanks. Another goof too. Boa don't have clutches, they have litters.

I'll get this stuff right one day.

>>Just noticed a typo in Richard's post. He meant DH Sunglow not DH Salmon and since the original poster was new to genetics I just didn't want to get him confused.
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Richard Carew
Sunset BCI
You laugh at me cuz I'm different! I laugh at you cuz you're all the same.
Stop Inhumane and Illegal Practices

You listed the parents as...

The father of this clutch was sunglow and the mother was salmon het for albino.

Any baby that was visual hypo cold be homozygous or heterozygous.

So, the DH sunglow could be a super salmon het albino and if bred to a normal would yield a litter of all salmons 50% het albino. No way to tell for certain withour breeding trials.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

dave is right on. the original breeding [sunglow x hypo het allbino] would have mathematically yielded; 1 in 8 super sunglow, 2 in 8 sunglows, 1 in 8 super hypo het albino, 2 in 8 hypos het albino, 1 in 8 albino, and 1 in 8 het albino. breeding one of the hypo babies to a normal would give you; [if super hypo het albino] all hypos 50% poss het albino, and a regular hypo het albino x normal breeding would give you half hypos 50% albino, and half normals 50% poss het albino. the albino gene is recessive, so it has to be in both parents to make albinos or albino hypos [sunglows]. kurt d.

Thanks for the replys all!!!
I have a female I have had for 16 years and Im considering a breeding project for next year. I have never bred boas and have alot to learn about boa morphs. She is pushing 9ft and should throw a large litter. Im considering a jungle ! A friend had these boas I refered to, They were from a sunglo litter and I just didnt understand what the outcome would be. Looks like a pair would be a better choice. There 600.00 each so I think I would rather spring for a jungle!!!!!!!!!!! If Im correct the jungles are co dominant so the clutch should be 50% jungle 50% normals. Thanks again bryan