Great video. The hobby moves so fast these days and yet the planning has occurred years and years before. I don't think you ever stop making hets, double hets, triple hets for your projects, it just keeps on going as your vision grows or evolves. This approach also means that any snakes you do buy are tailored to your specific projects and not just a "powerhouse male, couldn't resist".... It never stops. It never reaches the end. The goal posts are always moving. A goal we achieve today becomes a new beginning for something better for tomorrow. Projects evolve as we progress. Love it!
On the final stage of the 2nd tier myself, it is true as the collection has some amazing variety of triple hets already growing. Persevering thru many obstacles and staying focused on those original dreams is the only way to eventually make it to tier 3. And it will be worth it!
I am In my first year of breeding ball pythons. Your videos and especially this video have give me the knowledge on how to build a vision of the snakes I want to produce. Thank you for sharing your vision and knowledge. Hoping someday you come out with some DPR coldblood merch. 😁
Great advice for anyone interested in building any business. I would add that not every snake has to be a recessive. There’s amazing snakes without the recessive and a great building block for co-doms.
I don't know if your right or wrong, but you've more or less described how I see my breeding career going. I think it's important to keep that 10 year mindset and pay attention to the steps it takes to get there. I've been breeding for 4 years and I think I'm mostly in what you call the Vision phase. I think a related thing I've learned is how projects can really move at different speeds because we can't control everything about our animals or the odds on genetics. When a girl or guy won't go when you need it can really mess things up! And sometimes you smash the odds and jump years ahead! Been working on how to be better prepared against the stumbles like those.
That's a good point! Things will go sideways quite often. It did for my Monsoon project. Its part of the game and makes the rewards so much more enjoyable
In Phase One here, hoping to get my first clutch in the next year =) Growing up what was for me an investment male, by which point my oldest female should be ready to go with another two coming up behind her =) Assuming a normal sex ratio, I should have a very nice collection of multi-recessive females growing up within the next two years and have enough of them to have great odds of hitting at least double visuals their first year. I am obviously lagging behind on the projects I want up and running but I'll get there =) Thanks again for the content, mate!
@@dprcoldblood8062 Had a great time chatting with you at the Toronto show =) I'm a bit fizzy when it comes to this stuff, but it is being put to good use in the near future =) I'll have a deposit on that single codom het female we discussed at the show the day you run the cross and pop one too many for your own needs. I can be as patient as I need to be even if it takes a few years; I won't be going to anyone else for her =) If I had had any fun money, that wee Nelson's girl would have been coming home with me. Sorry if it was tactless to show you my pickup near the end, she was the score of the century and we'd just been chatting about my goals breeding-wise =) I've been thinking about the T+/T- (lavender albino/albino) Nelson's cross trivia I brought up... I am 99% sure I got that from Cloud Colubrid - that and his birth ratio with it are buried in one of his many videos. Onyhoo, if one of the two recessive phenotypes is "dominant" over the other then it could be working like say for example Cryptic/Crypton/Clown in P. regius. If (and I cannot stress this enough, only for theoretical example) the double het has the visual appearance of the T+, then somebody who bred pure T+ to T+ would obviously only get lavender babies - but so would T+ to double het, making it impossible to tell visually. A "pure" T+ to a T- would yield all lavender double hets, while two double hets would produce mostly lavenders but also a smaller proportion of albinos. But what is most interesting to me, perhaps because it is what I suspect C.C. is experiencing, is that a double het (visual lavender) put to a T- would be expected mathematically to produce a 50/50 split in the clutch's appearance, which is what he gets (though I have no idea of the sample size). All lavender offspring from that pairing would in fact be double hets. Assuming the original assertion and topic of discussion to be true, and given that this is mainly a pet level animal, it could be a real mix out there and the majority of owners wouldn't know (nor would it matter to them). Again I must stress that this is pure hypothesis on my part and that I only used the lavender/T+ being "dominant" for the sake of example, I am not stating any of the science behind this to be fact - it is merely conjecture at this point. I would double check with Cloud first but should it ever help crunch the years on a new Nelson's combo for you, don't forget good ol' Johnny ;P Sorry for the wall of text!
I think you're spot on in my opinion. My first year was just getting the experience. This year is more focused to a bigger plan for the future. In buying animals that fit towards those ideas and or breeding toward those goals. Great video.🔥🤘
Great way to summarize a complex idea! Awesome..
Thanks 😎
Great information to put things into perspective!
Thanks!
Great video. The hobby moves so fast these days and yet the planning has occurred years and years before. I don't think you ever stop making hets, double hets, triple hets for your projects, it just keeps on going as your vision grows or evolves. This approach also means that any snakes you do buy are tailored to your specific projects and not just a "powerhouse male, couldn't resist"....
It never stops. It never reaches the end. The goal posts are always moving. A goal we achieve today becomes a new beginning for something better for tomorrow. Projects evolve as we progress. Love it!
That's so true!! The 10 years goal when I started is way different than the 10 years from now goal!!
Very informative video. I can tell a lot of thought went into this one. I’m sure you helped a lot of people.
Yeah definitely man... I've been explaining this idea over and over for months, it was about time to put it on RUclips 😉
On the cusp of phase 3 super cool video with some unique points
I appreciate that bro 🙏🏻
Great and informative video bro and awesome looking snakes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks bro, as always
I'm in the startup phase 1. I agree with everything you are saying for sure.
On the final stage of the 2nd tier myself, it is true as the collection has some amazing variety of triple hets already growing. Persevering thru many obstacles and staying focused on those original dreams is the only way to eventually make it to tier 3. And it will be worth it!
That's sick!!
I am In my first year of breeding ball pythons. Your videos and especially this video have give me the knowledge on how to build a vision of the snakes I want to produce. Thank you for sharing your vision and knowledge. Hoping someday you come out with some DPR coldblood merch. 😁
I am so glad to read this! Thanks for sharing and I'm happy to have helped! Stay tune, 2023 is the year for that 😉😉
No body ever remembers the old timers,, lol. Great video spot on.
Thanks man 🙏🏻
Great advice for anyone interested in building any business. I would add that not every snake has to be a recessive. There’s amazing snakes without the recessive and a great building block for co-doms.
I 100% agree about that. Codom is so important
Awesome idea for a video. I’ll m hitting phase 2 this year. Holdbacks to make Hyabusa Super Asphalt OD clowns ✅
Oufff thats killer!
I don't know if your right or wrong, but you've more or less described how I see my breeding career going. I think it's important to keep that 10 year mindset and pay attention to the steps it takes to get there.
I've been breeding for 4 years and I think I'm mostly in what you call the Vision phase.
I think a related thing I've learned is how projects can really move at different speeds because we can't control everything about our animals or the odds on genetics. When a girl or guy won't go when you need it can really mess things up! And sometimes you smash the odds and jump years ahead! Been working on how to be better prepared against the stumbles like those.
That's a good point! Things will go sideways quite often. It did for my Monsoon project. Its part of the game and makes the rewards so much more enjoyable
In Phase One here, hoping to get my first clutch in the next year =) Growing up what was for me an investment male, by which point my oldest female should be ready to go with another two coming up behind her =) Assuming a normal sex ratio, I should have a very nice collection of multi-recessive females growing up within the next two years and have enough of them to have great odds of hitting at least double visuals their first year. I am obviously lagging behind on the projects I want up and running but I'll get there =) Thanks again for the content, mate!
That's awesome!!
@@dprcoldblood8062 Had a great time chatting with you at the Toronto show =) I'm a bit fizzy when it comes to this stuff, but it is being put to good use in the near future =) I'll have a deposit on that single codom het female we discussed at the show the day you run the cross and pop one too many for your own needs. I can be as patient as I need to be even if it takes a few years; I won't be going to anyone else for her =)
If I had had any fun money, that wee Nelson's girl would have been coming home with me. Sorry if it was tactless to show you my pickup near the end, she was the score of the century and we'd just been chatting about my goals breeding-wise =)
I've been thinking about the T+/T- (lavender albino/albino) Nelson's cross trivia I brought up... I am 99% sure I got that from Cloud Colubrid - that and his birth ratio with it are buried in one of his many videos. Onyhoo, if one of the two recessive phenotypes is "dominant" over the other then it could be working like say for example Cryptic/Crypton/Clown in P. regius. If (and I cannot stress this enough, only for theoretical example) the double het has the visual appearance of the T+, then somebody who bred pure T+ to T+ would obviously only get lavender babies - but so would T+ to double het, making it impossible to tell visually. A "pure" T+ to a T- would yield all lavender double hets, while two double hets would produce mostly lavenders but also a smaller proportion of albinos. But what is most interesting to me, perhaps because it is what I suspect C.C. is experiencing, is that a double het (visual lavender) put to a T- would be expected mathematically to produce a 50/50 split in the clutch's appearance, which is what he gets (though I have no idea of the sample size). All lavender offspring from that pairing would in fact be double hets. Assuming the original assertion and topic of discussion to be true, and given that this is mainly a pet level animal, it could be a real mix out there and the majority of owners wouldn't know (nor would it matter to them). Again I must stress that this is pure hypothesis on my part and that I only used the lavender/T+ being "dominant" for the sake of example, I am not stating any of the science behind this to be fact - it is merely conjecture at this point. I would double check with Cloud first but should it ever help crunch the years on a new Nelson's combo for you, don't forget good ol' Johnny ;P
Sorry for the wall of text!
I think you're spot on in my opinion. My first year was just getting the experience. This year is more focused to a bigger plan for the future. In buying animals that fit towards those ideas and or breeding toward those goals. Great video.🔥🤘
Thanks a lot!!!
Nice video and you are 100% dead on