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Just a quick question. What will i get if i breed a Het pied to a normal, and how long before i'd get myself a pied? Thanks to anyone who answers!

breeding a het pied to a normal would result in a litter of approximately half het pied, half normal, with no way of telling them apart you would call them 50% het pieds.

then you would want to raise up all the females (2-3 years) and if your lucky you will get a pied when bred back to the het pied male
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Guy
db Reptiles.

Assuming you have a male breeding this upcoming season it would shake down like this.......

If you start cooling your females in November 2004.....and start breeding your 100% het male to normal females you will hatch out 50% possible hets in April-June 2005.

You keep all your 50% het females and raise them up 1.5 years. By 2005 May thru Dec you should be able to hit 600-900 grams on these animals on average. In 2006 Jan thru Nov you should be able to get them to the 1300-1800 gram area on average. Obviously there are exception to the above numbers. Most should be able to be cooled down in Nov/Dec 2006.

So in 2006/2007 you will be breeding the 100% father to his 50% possible daughters. So in 2007 April-June you will hatch 100% het X Normal and 100% het X 100% het. You will have a 25% chance for a visible pied with the girls that prove out to be 100% het pied. However, if you don't get a pied....that doesn't necessarily mean the female isn't 100% het. So you keep her and her females marked as 50% possibles and try to prove her out the following year.

If you get a visual pied in the clutch you know the mother is a 100% het pied and all the normal looking clutch mates to the pied are 66% het for pied (100% het X 100% het = 25% normal 50% het 25% home).

One disclaimer.....with ball pythons there are know sure thing forcasts. These are just general assumptions....plan for the low end....not for the optimal outcome.

Hope this helps,

Jim
Python Passion Reptiles

Thanks a lot for the indept explanation. I really appreciate it.