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baz300 · I'm new here... Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 10

this my sound like a silly question and I apologize if it is.

Is there a genetic reason for breeding morphs to normals. Many people who have a number of royals tend to have quite a few normals in their collection. I'm looking to get four or five morphs to start with to get a good start with hatchlings. Is there a problem with this. I suppose ultimately I'm asking why breeders have such a large collection of normals if its the morphs that people are after.

Thanks

Jase · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

It's basically a cheaper way of producing larger numbers of morphs.

If you breed a codominant male to loads of normal females you should, in theory, get 50% of the babies to be the same morph as the father.
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baz300 · I'm new here... Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 10

I thought that may be the case but morph to morph would produce 100% morphs and a higher clutch value wouldn't it?

Jase · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

No, codominant 'A' x codominant 'B' would give

25% 'A'
25% 'B'
25% Normal
25% 'AB'

Codominant 'A' x codominant 'A' would give

50% 'A'
25% Normal
25% 'AA'
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Scott W · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

*A* · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

This is the thing I'm getting confused about... If someone would be so kind to put it in a punit square for me, with the genotypes from a codom mum and a codom dad and the final possible genotypes of the offspring?? Im a biologist at heart, i like to see things drawn out in front of me to get the proper picture Laughing

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Scott W · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:13 am Post subject:

here's a good link to Mark's site on genetics http://ballpythons.ca/genetics.html or http://ballpythons.ca/what_get/co_dominant.html
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*A* · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:59 am Post subject:

Thankyou muchly!
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quasimodo · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: normal to morph breeding?

jamie_s · Site Moderator Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 1963

yeah i agree,its totally money why people use normals to breed to morph's.one thing you also have to bear in mind morph's havnt always been as reasonable as they are today Very Happy

id probly be able to buy 5 spider females now for what i paid for 1 spider female Laughing

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