I agree with the others that tossing more than one visual male to a normal girl wouldn't make much sense. But there can be benefits if it's done with doms, codoms, or even the right way with recessives.

I'm pairing both my Mojo male and my Pewter male with my Pin female. No recessives in the mix. I'd not know who the dad was of any Normals or Pins, but don't think that's too big a deal. Anything with Mojo in it could only be fathered by my Mojo and anyting with Pastel or Cinny could only be fathered by the Pewter.

To answer the question about what the "benefit" could be, for me it's two fold. I'd love to hatch a Jigsaw, also love to go for a Pewter Pin. By doing only one male per year, I could only hope for one or the other each year. If I get lucky and end up with a double daddy clutch (meaning some of the eggs will get fertilized by the Mojo and some by the Pewter) then I could possibly hatch one of each this year. Course the odds gods could go against me and I could hatch neither, but it's kind of like the lotto, can't win if you don't play!

The other part for me is just to add to the anticipation and excitement of the eggs hatching since it will be more options of what could be in the eggs so that much more exciting

As I understand it, the way it works is the females store the sperm from her matings. Then that stored sperm is what is used to fertilize the eggs. If muliple males are used during the breeding season, her store of sperm will be a mix of the males she's been with. Each eggs would get fertilized by just one sperm, so would have just one dad, but different eggs in the clutch could have different dads.

I'm doing it with recessives as well this year but my female is a visual, so no worries about "possible hets". My female Hypo Pastel has been paired with my male Hypo Pastel, male Honeybee, and male Cinny het Hypo. Only the Cinny het Hypo could father a normal, but since the Mom is a visual Hypo then any Normal babies, or Cinny babies for that matter, would be 100% het Hypo. I won't be getting any Normal babies from either of the other two males.

I'm also pairing my Caramel female with both my Hypo Pastel male and my Honey Bee. All babies will be 100% double het for Hypo and Caramel.

Hope this helps a bit...









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Ball Pythons
1.1 Het Caramels (Edward & Bella)
0.1 Normal 66% ph Caramel (Rosalie)
1.1 Caramels (Crookshanks & Bellatrix)
1.0 Honey Bee (Aragog)
0.1 Hypo Pastel (Nagini)
0.1 Spider 66% ph Hypo(Nymphadora)
1.0 Mojave (Lucius)
1.1 Pastel Lessers (Jacob & Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.1 Het Pied
0.1 Hypo Cinny (Myrtle)
1.0 Cinny het Hypo poss het Albino
1.1 Pastel Dinkers (Snape & Xiomara)
0.2 Ghana Dinker Babies
0.0.3 CH Dinker Babies

Corns
1.1 Normals het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Diffused (Tumnus)
1.0 Blizzard poss het Anery, Hypo, Diffused (Cotton)
0.1 Anery Lavender het Amel (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma poss het Hypo (Victoria)
1.0 Plasma poss het Albino
1.0 Hypo Plasma
1.1 Amel Motleys (Harry & Ginny)
0.1 Lavender Motley poss het diffused
1.0 Lavender Pinstripe Motley het Amel
0.1 Fire poss het Anery, Charcoal, Hypo (LeeLoo)
0.1 Normal het Albino, Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.0 Albino het Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.1 Sunkissed poss het Plasma (Arthur & Molly)
0.1 Dilute Blue Motley (Myrtle)
1.0 Pastel Motley (Nick)
0.1 Diffused Caramel
1.0 Blizzard 66% poss het Diffused
1.0 Pewter het Albino
0.1 Fire het Charcoal

Thayeri Kings
0.1 Leonis phase (Sidney)
1.0 Milk Snake phase

Milks
1.1 Tangerine Albino Hondurans
0.1 Hypo Tangerine Albino Honduran

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