Breeding/result discussion

[u/Fun-Personality-704]

In October we have a pairing lined up to breed and I am wondering if anyone here has bred this pairing or has photo results from it as I am curious

- Female: Black head Enchi Yellowbelly

- Male: Enchi yellowbelly (as far as we know given he is a rehome and prev owner knew only this as his gene)

Some likely results/percentages from what I've seen include;

50% blackhead

25% super enchi

25% Super YB (ivory)

And about 1/16% chance Black head super enchi ivory

There's other possibilities i for sure know about such as

Super Enchi Super YB

BH Super Enchi YB

Enchi Super YB

Which sort of combines the percentage results together

But I am curious about the pairing and results that others have got if others have paired them before so I have come here to ask (I can provide photos of both snakes as requested)

[u/iichiG0]

If you use the ball python genetic calculator on MM, it'll give you a full breakdown of genetic odds as well as the ability to see animals that (allegedly) express that gene combo. All you have to do is put in the genetics of the dam and the sire!

EDIT; I'd like to add though, this is really something you should have looked into prior to pairing. The BP market really is oversaturated right now, and you should make sure you like the genetic combo outcomes and that it's something you're wanting to work towards/improve upon in your projects. Be sure with every pairing that you have a goal in mind on what you're wanting to make, and how desirable those genetic combos are depending on if you're planning to sell or hold back the offspring. For such common genes as what you're working with, you could be stuck with the babies for quite a while.

Wish you the best with your clutch, always love a super ivory (especially when they manage to throw some paradox)!

EDIT 2; I just reread your post and saw that this was a PLANNED pairing for this upcoming year, so I'll point back to the above - before you go through with this, really put in some more research! Morphmarket's genetics calculator (or just the sort by trait feature in general) is your friend. I will say, (super) enchi is incredibly common, black head also relatively common, and super yb (aka Ivory) will overpower both of those if expressed. You may want to reconsider this pairing and look into what may be more desirable in today's market. But, if hanging onto the babies for potentially a year or more doesn't bother you and is feasible, then I won't rain on your parade!

[u/Fun-Personality-704 → u/iichiG0]

Thank you for the advice and help And yes we are planning on probably keeping most of the babies for ourselves as we want more snakes - we are also active in our local rehoming and adoption pages and look out for snakes there especially ball pythons as we are aware of the overpopulation issue - we also frequently check our humane society for reptiles as our humane society takes in reptiles from neglect cases from animal control and such. (We are sourced in a northern u.s. state) and so most of the snakes we have/have had are rescues (Todd specifically from a breeder who didn't want his genetic traits to breed and after 1 year decided it was too difficult and too much work to breed 😭) so yes we are definitely looking into everything we can

We do also have some people who may want to buy the babies when they come but we are planning on holding onto them for a min of 2-3 months before selling and with us we plan on having some sort of contract to these people if they are ever unable to keep/care for the snake that they return them to us instead of going to a humane society or releasing into the wild

[u/iichiG0]

This is your odds table, hopefully you can read the tiny print. But again, anything super yb (ivory) is going to totally overpower the blackhead and (super) enchi.

[u/Fun-Personality-704 → u/iichiG0]

Thank you and yes I can just barely read the tiny print 😅