WOW, I was looking through my old 2004 pics and had a major brain fart. I tied several things together regarding bullseyes and my lack of spectacular bullseyes so far this year.
Last year I bred all my adults as one colony, 2.6 and had some outstanding bullseyes. Still fairly new to breeding I didn't realize what I had and sold them
Since I bred as a colony, I also didn't know where exactly the babies came from, sure I knew who mom was but dad??? 50/50 chance at best.
This year in an attempt to better understand and get more into selective breeding I set up two separate breeding colonies 1.3 and 1.4 (had a new female, that's why the additional 0.1 from last year) Worked really good, I now know exactly where each baby came from. From this years breeding all the babies that had bullseye traits came from the same male. Bingo, got that half of the equation nailed.
As luck would have it, I bred my bullseye producing male to the females that did NOT produce the outstanding bullseyes last year. EXCEPT, I still have one litter to go, she produced my best bullseyes last year and she was bred to my bullseye producing male. I think I just made my remaining wait for her to drop even more agonizing.
Really suck thing is she's not got a great track record, this is the female that gave me nothing but slugs for several breedings and was for sale in 2003. She was almost sold twice but both buyers backed out. I left her in the colony for the 2004 breeding season and this was her first successful breeding, killer litter of 31 babies including my best ever bullseye.
Last years killer bullseye:
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Thanks,
Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 


