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Jack · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: muliple males

is it possible to have two males and alternate them with the females Very Happy

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MJ · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Two male what mate?
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Jack · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

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Dracowoman2 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure how that will work, I know a female can be mated once and produce eggs for the rest of the season from that one mating. In theory I wold think that by putting another male to her the following month after she has laid the first clutch it would be feasible that the second males sperm would be used as this would be the freshest sample, but I'm not an expect on the actual reproductive process. I'd also be interested inthe outcome from someone with more knowledge.
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Steve H · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject:

A few years ago i mated an albino female with a normal male which resulted in six normal hatchlings.After clutch 3 she was re-mated to a m8s nice albino male so i could get some albino hatchlings.It never worked as the next 4 clutches all turned out normal same as the original clutches.I know the male albino wasn't a jaffa because he was mated to other females and produced offspring.
Going by this, my experience is first mating is for the year unlike cornsnakes which i bred to several males and got a morph mix.

Dracowoman2 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

That was very interesting, I thought hedging my bets was a good way to go Laughing

So my double possible triple female who has been mated to my blizzard/banana blizzard could produce some very interesting off spring for the rest of the season Very Happy

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