Haz'z garters

[ConcinusMan]

The percentages are used to tell a buyer what the chances are that babies are hets. Since the mother is albino, then all the normal looking babies she has are hets, so they are 100% hets.

And since you got albino babies from him last year, you know for sure he is a het, so he's 100% het.

Knowing he's a het, if you mated him to a normal wild-type female, the babies would all look normal but would have a 50% chance of being hets, so until each one was proven or unproven to be a het, the babies would be called 50% hets.

That's not the case though. The mother is albino, the father has already been proven to be a het. So, you have a 50/50 chance of producing albinos, but even if by chance all the babies came out normal looking, the babies would all be 100% het for albino. Any normal looking babies you get from those two would be 100% hets.

@ Marnie: Albino checkered garters are probably the least expensive albino garter snake you can buy. I've seen them for as little as $40.

Pastels on the other hand, are pretty darn expensive.

[HazAnga]

lol the one pet store that has a rep of over pricing things have a couple baby albino checkereds for over $70 there on sale right now for like $69. (probably because no one would buy them for that much lol) I'm going to see how much he'd pay for my babies this year, if it's worth it or to try to sell them myself is easier.

@ ConcinnusMan where abouts would I be able to git myself a pastel checkered garter?

[EasternGirl]

Yes, Richard...can you get albino checkereds? Can you post a pic of one of those...I hear albino and think Amy...I suppose he is pastel. Could I put an albino checkered female in with Selena?

[HazAnga]

the pictures in this thread have albino checkereds in them.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, really. They're in this thread. However, I think there's better photos elsewhere.

And, Amy is an Iowa strain albino plains garter. (T. radix) There are also Nebraska strain albino plains garters, which look a bit different than Amy, so there's two basic types of albino plains garters.

This a normal checkered garter (T. marcianus)




Here are the 2 albinos, and two pastels that are coming to me when this dang cold weather warms up:



Shannon (asnakelovinbabe) bred these. I do not know if she has any more for sale but I do know that pastels wouldn't be cheap.

here's an adult albino:


Albinos, both babies and adults come up for sale pretty often on kingsnake.com classifieds and elsewhere.

Here's some for $30 plus shipping: Buy Albino Checkered Garter Snakes Online. For Sale with Same Day Shipping.

[HazAnga]

Here's some pix of my pregnant girl Helga
(She hissed at me when i was checked out the little bit of dirt towards her tail when she had the mouse in her mouth... it was kinda funny. Like a "Piss off!!!" hiss)


If you look in this pic, the lump closest to the head is the first ASF fuzzie, and the long lump after that is........ BABIES!!!!!

Here's a pic so you might be able to git the idea of how big she's getting, there's a average size coffee mug in the pic

[guidofatherof5]

Good looking snake, Nick.
I don't remember. Was she bred to a normal or het.?

[ConcinusMan]

Congrats, you took two pictures that are actually in focus. Should have used that second one for the contest. Nice photo.

[HazAnga]

Yeah... next time I'm going to wait before I enter a photo. And the unfocused pix, would be my unsteady hand and my camera on my HTC Hero.
And Steve she was bred to the only male I have big and old enough, he's a normal but I will git albinos out of it (as I did last year). I'm not so smart with the whole genetics yet but I'm working on it. So, please correct me if I'm wrong but would that make him 100% het for albino?

[guidofatherof5]

In order for you to get albinos he must be het for albino.
I had the same situation on the Ranch last year. The male was normal looking but my albino female produced some albinos in the litter.
I'm with you on the whole genetic stuff.