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I am relitivly new to the world of reptile breeding but I have been keeping herps for a while now .I have a very nice female Miami corn snake that is around 3.5-4 feet , she is around five years old maybe younger and has never been bred before . She is in great shape and has a very nice weight to her . I am considering breeding her this upcoming season . If I want to so what do I have to do to get her ready .
One more question . If I were to breed her what should I breed her to , another miami , a crisom , a caramel , an amel or a sunglow ?
Thanks .

All of the offspring would be normal hets unless she is het for something. But breed what you like! That is whats important. By the time you really see results the price is through the floor anyway
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"

Well if you breed her to another miami then you will get all miami unless they are het for another morph which may be the case. As well as the others you will get all miami's het for whatever the others may be if you breed her to any of the others you listed. Hope that helped, i may be wrong im not that great on ginetics. So hopefully somebody will second my opinion.
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Cameron

Thanks for the responce . I will most likely breed her to the miami or the caramel . I really don't care if the babies are normal, miami or het. I have no clue what her background is as she was given to me from people who just got tired of her . Also is brumating nessicary to breed corns ? I know a breeder who does not and has had great success breeding her snakes . What are the possitive and negative effects of brumating snakes that you plan on breeding . Thank you .

>>I am relitivly new to the world of reptile breeding but I have been keeping herps for a while now .I have a very nice female Miami corn snake that is around 3.5-4 feet , she is around five years old maybe younger and has never been bred before . She is in great shape and has a very nice weight to her . I am considering breeding her this upcoming season . If I want to so what do I have to do to get her ready .
>> One more question . If I were to breed her what should I breed her to , another miami , a crisom , a caramel , an amel or a sunglow ?
>>Thanks .

I would breed it to another Miami or Crimson (hypo miami)
You don't actually HAVE to do anything.
They can and will breed without doing anything.
But, I think it is better to brumate.
You will obviously need a mate old enough to breed. I would get it now. Make sure it is good and healthy and can be brumated.
Give them both one last meal. Wait two to three weeks (I go three) to make sure they pass all waste.
Turn off their lights and heat sources for a week.
Then place them (separately of course) in a cool closet or basement, cool room or somewhere you can regulate temperatures.
This season I am using a store cooler and my basement.
Basically leave them alone for two or three months.
Other then regular checks to maintain a clean water supply and see how they look.
When you bring them out, put them back in their regular containers, for a week, with heaters and lights off.
After a week turn their heat and lights on.
Give them another week and then feed them a smaller prey item. Small hopper of fuzzie.
If they hold that down start feeding them regularly.
After they both shed, put them together and they should hook up.

Note.... Last season I skipped the slower warm up and took them straight from brumation to the normal temperature containers.
I did give them a week before feeding but I saw no ill effect by skipping the slow warm-up week.

The above is just a generalization.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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what if you cool down your snake rooms temp,put blankets oiver the cages, then bring the temps up in a few months? it would be a lot easier than putting them in a closet.
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

>>what if you cool down your snake rooms temp,put blankets oiver the cages, then bring the temps up in a few months? it would be a lot easier than putting them in a closet.
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>>jake
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That only works if you have a room you can regulate seperately from the rest of your house....I don't.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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you should be asking yourself what you want to breed her to.
but if you want to have some cool breeding in a few years, breed her to something with more that one gene (snow, blizzard, butter, etc) and then breed the siblings to eachother and see what thier het for
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)