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How do you make your breeding plans?

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It seems like a pretty simple question to many people but I'm curious as to how everyone else does it. Personally I've been looking through Ians viv website and finding the morphs I like. I'm realizing though looking at some of these pictures that there's more going on that what's labeled for the picture....

So how do you come up with your breeding plans. I have a picture in my mind of the snakes I'd like to have and I'm trying to work backwards (if I can't find any adults). How about you?
 
The thing with candles is, what if you fall asleep later and the house burns down? I get too worried...
 
I guess I really don't understand your question. I make sure snakes I am breeding have genes that match. If they don't but I want a mix of those genes then I will hold back the nicest babies from that pair.
 
An oft-overlooked part of breeding plans is avoiding breeding partners that will take your house and half your belongings if it doesn't work out. Sharing a common sense of humor goes a long way. In the end, if you don't enjoy spending time with someone, it's probably best not to breed with them, no matter how nice they might be to look at.
 
Sometimes I like to give the female a little wine, but if you let the male have too much the chances of a successful mating go way down.
 
Christen said:
I guess I really don't understand your question. I make sure snakes I am breeding have genes that match. If they don't but I want a mix of those genes then I will hold back the nicest babies from that pair.
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You're right. That was kind of a vauge question.

10 years ago when I raising corn snakes there weren't nearly as many varieties available (at least to me) as there seems to be now. Now I'm flipping through the photos on Ians Viv and often get lost in the pages and pages of photos of the different morphs.

Realizing that the end point would be the preferred snake, how do you decide which snakes to hold back and which not to? Right now I'm having an incredibly hard time connecting some of the hatchlings to the adults. Do you score each of your hatchlings on color, pattern, etc? The once you decide not to hold onto, how do you price them?
 
I would browse progression threads, to see what some of the snakes look like as babies, how they progress, and what they look like as adults.

Also, browse the for sale ads, to see what prices various morphs are.

That's the best thing I can think of as far as that goes.

For what to keep as holdbacks, it depends on what you're goal is. What morph(s) are you aiming for?
I pick the ones I like the best to hold back.
 
I pick the most perfect examples to hold back. If they are all equal, I pick the friendliest (or the pissiest!), or even someone who needs a little extra TLC. Sometimes, a hatchling I hadn't planned on holding back picks me.

I price the for sale babies by market rate, but I don't price slash to meet unreasonable under cutters. With my Milksnake Miami project, for example, the target morph, if "top shelf" quality, will sell for $125-$150, simply because you aren't guaranteed _any_ in a clutch. The remaining Miamis are then priced according to well they meet _my_ standards for the morph, from $35-$50. If there amel Miamis, they are priced according to how red and white they are, and for nice ones, they end up between $75-$100. My Pinstripe Miamis (who haven't even been offered for sale yet) will be priced based on pattern. My ideal is a perfect stripe the length of the back. The perfect pinstripes are $25 more than the broken stripes.
 
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