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POS (or lack thereof) being genetic?

Just got a note from Al Brown and some things clicked. This year my Albino Boa Sierra had NO POS, same thing last year but last year I caught the ovulation so had a very close due date. Sierra came from Al and her mother has had 5 litters for Al and you should have guessed it, not one single POS from her either. That makes a total of 7 litters from two generations and not a POS for one of them!!!

Hmmm......
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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 (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Interesting idea Dave, I had a fem that never gave me a POS ,
I never saw an ovulation.

I believe they were all "SMO"

. . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz

I Support USark.org

Yours is an Albino. Is her Mother an Albino as well? It might be related to that commonality in particular. Could be...
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site

Yes, both are Albino's....
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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 (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Actually Sierra's mother is a Het Albino and her Father was a Albino Het. Snow! The Mother Het produced my first litter of albinos in 04 and I never got a POS. In 2005 and 2006 I bred her again and caught the ovulation, but once again no POS! She put her weight back on fabulously after all three litters. I gave her 2007 off and she produced again for me in 2008 and 2009 and is currently gravid again and looking great... She is my absolute best producer and I have not had this kind of luck with any of my other breeder females... Just a one a million producer... She will get this next season off...

Al Brown
www.BrownsBoas.biz

There goes that as a possibility. That is peculiar though.
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site