We bred a male albino to a het female and got 8 fertile eggs on 2-15. They just started hatching and we are happy to see 6 albinos and 2 hets!!
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Hatching Today!!!
marksherps
Apr 14, 2004 11:49 AM
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mistysprouse
Apr 14, 2004 12:05 PM
wow those are great numbers, gives me hope for lots when I get to that point!!! congrats!!!
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Misty
6 ball pythons and adding...
Marilyn (A.K.A. garbage gut)-male
Lil Girl-female
Hiss-female
Skiddish-male
no name-female
Big Bucks-male albino
BallBoutique
Apr 14, 2004 12:43 PM
Nice odds......
No eggs at my place....not even from the Easter Bunny.
Going to Hamburg?
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RicK @ BbI
Ball Boutique,Inc.
The home of the singing snakes!
mingdurga
Apr 14, 2004 12:52 PM
Very nice "fingerlings"
Mike
marksherps
Apr 14, 2004 01:20 PM
np
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Mark Kennedy Reptiles
jrmiah
Apr 14, 2004 01:41 PM
Are you going to sell them (hets or albinos) if so, let me know... ( jrmiah@hotmail.com ) thanks PS CONGRATS!!
hissherspyth
Apr 14, 2004 02:24 PM
Good luck with them..
Michael
All4sky
Apr 14, 2004 04:46 PM
Debra Dillon
Apr 14, 2004 04:48 PM
They look marvelous!!
Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles
Markus Jayne
Apr 14, 2004 05:28 PM
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Damon
Apr 14, 2004 06:03 PM
Albinos are my passion.. Still my favorite morph!
marksherps
Apr 14, 2004 06:51 PM
The father of these babies is actually wild caught! He is here on breeding loan from Tracy Barker. I believe these are unrelated to anyones out there. The last time Tracy bred him to a het female 4 out of 5 came out albino. Maybe this bloodline is prone to throwing more albinos? If you've seen the bright orange and white albino on VPI's ball python gallery, it came from this guy. Thanks for all your nice comments I appreciate it!
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Mark Kennedy Reptiles
RandyRemington
Apr 14, 2004 09:17 PM
Congratulations, and great to hear about the new blood!
However, any albino male could have only given albino genes. It's your het albino female who got lucky and gave albino genes to more than half of her eggs. Since the females also determine the gender of the offspring in snakes it would be interesting to see if there is any skewing from the expected normal distribution indicating that the females' contribution isn't as random and independent for each egg as expected (i.e. what if she splits copies of a smaller number of eggs before fertilization).
mark.l
Apr 14, 2004 08:36 PM
awsome babies .very good odds
mark if you are selling any of the albinos let me know.
eastsidereptiles@hotmail.com
thanks
serpentcity
Apr 14, 2004 10:38 PM
...nicely done!! I'm still waiting to see if the two 100% het albinos my albino bred are even going to ovulate! The normal females he bred (3) have ovulated and 1 is building towards. Oh well what are you gunna do!? One good thing is if they (the hets) don't ovulate I should be able to get them bigger for next year! Ahhh, next year...!
Scott J. Michaels DVM
exoticballpython
Apr 15, 2004 02:10 AM
Bryan
SpinsRetics
Apr 15, 2004 01:14 PM
Should be some great looking albinos!!! Why don't ya send some down this way! Congrats
dhlaw
Apr 15, 2004 05:44 PM
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marksherps
Apr 16, 2004 01:36 AM
np
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