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Hybrid Question

hevychevy427 Aug 26, 2003 06:29 PM

I have a beautiful Albino Cal King that is a pinkish/lavender with a yellow dot dash pattern. My sister has a very brightly colored Oketee . We were thinking of breeding them. What do you think? The female is the Kingsnake.
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bluerosy Aug 27, 2003 08:25 PM

...this is a very common question that people ask on this forum. If you check the previous posts and read you will find that breeding to create a hybrid is very difficult and you need several groups of females and males of each seperate sp. Then you still have to use tricks to get them to breed.

I wish it was as easy as breeding any two snakes that you happen to have and putting them together and thats all it takes.

Think about all the different snakes in the wild and what would happen if it was that easy...? Do you see a rattlesnake breeding with a cal king? Do you see a garter breeding with a corn? You will see intergrades breeding in the wild but they are closely related spp. If a corn meet a eastern king or florida king in the wild this usually ends up a meal for the king.
Unless you have many years breeding pure animals under your belt taking on breeding a F1 hybrid is quite an accomplishment in breeding prowness... Probably to highest degree of breding expertise.
The Jurassic Milks are an example. This is a florida king and a honduran cross. This breeding is virtually impossible to duplicate and will take experience and many years to accomplish not to mentiuon an expensive collection and breeding years wasted of said animals.
Try some already made hybrids like the Jurassics, corndurans and Jungles. These will be easy to breed to each other. Then again there are some hybrid snakes that are very difficult (like the ruthieni hybrids) to breed together even if they already are man made.
Hope this helps and did not turn off your interest but rather sparked it.

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