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for those of you that know me you might remember me telling you all about my daughter sqashing all of my 100% het eggs last year. well this year shes 4 and knows better. my first clutch from my first female all look great! there are 12. I have my fingers crossed that they wil (ALL) be albinos. I know good luck. I cant wait to see them hatch! I will post any good news when they start hatching.

good luck to all..

JIM

When did you get eggs? when did they breed and how long were they gravid??
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1.1 Kenyan Sand Boa adults
1.1 Kenyan Sand Boa 2003
0.1 Rubber Boa
0.2 Eastern Hognose Snakes
4.4 Western Hognose Snakes
1.1 Womas
Black Knobbed Sawback
Northern Diamondback
Florida Redbellied Slider
Western Painted
Southern Painted
1.0 African Hedgehog
1.0 Sulcata
1.1 Leopard tortoises
1 Pleco
2 Silver Dollars
3 Bosemian Rainbows
1 Cory Cat
1 Upside Down Catfish
2.0 Fire Guramis

uhh... I think that is it.

just a question--to my mind, 'het'=heterozygous, which isn't a 100% producer of whatever desired trait they are het for....but I'm a mammal person who is about to get my first hognose (very excited), already have a 4yo fl king. so what does 100% het mean for snakes? thanks

100% het means the both parents look normal but carry the albino jean, so 50% of the babys would be hets or carry the albino jean,but still look normal. and 25% would be albino. and 25% would be normal. both of my adults look normal but are 100%garateed to carry the albino jean. hope this answers all your Questions.

JIM

yes, that makes sense--the 100% refers to the guarantee that they are het, not to the expected phenotypes or genotypes. thanks!

Yes, the 100% prefix is simply there to indicate that they are heterozygous for the desired gene. The prefix is used more readily to differentiate between the possible hets such as 66% (more accurately 2/3) and 50% heterozygous.
These situations arise when two hets are mated and when a het and a homozygous for wildtype animal are mated.
When two hets are mated the offspring (phenotypically) will be 25% albino (if we're are supposing that the gene in question is for amelanism) and 75% wildtype. However, 2/3's of the wildtype will be heterozygous but there is no way to tell by appearance, so there is a 66% chance that any one of them is heterozygous.
Now, mating a het with a homozygous recessive will result in 100% wildtype phenotypes, however, 50% would be heterozygous. Again, there is now way of visually discriminating the hets from the homos, so there is a 50% chance that any one of them is heterozygous.
This is why you see 50%, 66% and 100% hets available (incidentally, 100% hets result from the pairing of a heterozygous animal and a homozygous recessive animal, of course).
Cheers,
R

ok they mated on,12-21 and she laid her eggs on 2-8. you can do the math! ha ha hopefully in about 58 more days I will see some yellow heads poking out.

JIM

If you are mating them in December and they are laying in February when do they bruminate??
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1.1 Kenyan Sand Boa adults
1.1 Kenyan Sand Boa 2003
0.1 Rubber Boa
0.2 Eastern Hognose Snakes
4.4 Western Hognose Snakes
1.1 Womas
Black Knobbed Sawback
Northern Diamondback
Florida Redbellied Slider
Western Painted
Southern Painted
1.0 African Hedgehog
1.0 Sulcata
1.1 Leopard tortoises
1 Pleco
2 Silver Dollars
3 Bosemian Rainbows
1 Cory Cat
1 Upside Down Catfish
2.0 Fire Guramis

uhh... I think that is it.

I start to cool mine in late october and take them out in late december. and I only have one male that breeds with four females and all of them lay good eggs and some lay more then one clutch. so there you go ! no problemoooo man. let me know how it goes for you .

JIM

Hey Jim,

Great news about the hets! Any action with the tri-hogs yet? My male uis growing like a weed....took 4 pinks last night!

Scott

thanks no luck with the tri-hogs so far. but I will let you know if things start to happen. I do have one last baby 03 male for sell now on the classifieds.

JIM

Congratulations Jim! I'm about to take out of brumation your old 66% het. male. But I'm just hoping on getting any babies for the first time. Hope you get a good percentage of albinos! Be sure to keep us posted!
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James
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Congratulations Jim
I remember your post last year about your eggs getting crushed and I'll probably never forget it! Good Luck on popping out some nice "yellow heads" this year!