The breeding season enters the most important phase with the first females growing follicols to reach ovulation. From now through all the summer females will ovulate, then shed and after about  a month they will lay eggs. In the pictures you can see an orange hypo and a spider females in two different ovulation phases.

While waiting for the Easter with the first eggs, we enjoy the growth of our keepers. In the pictures you can see a female Pinstripe-Fire and a female Superpastel-Yellowbelly. We held back some other animals like Firefly, Firefly-lesser, Stingerbee-Butter, Piebald, Kingpin-Fire, Lesser-Fire, Enchi het Hypo and more, besides a nice group of Pastel, Spider e Bumblebee all het  for axanthic.

With follicols development animals started to glow and ovulate. Now is very important that all males copulate but some do not lust for. The season is still very long and we hope that also the lasy ones will start to breed later.

Here is the weird morph that we hatched before christmas aftre a couple of sheds. We are growing all the clutch in order to have them ready to breed in 2/3 years. We decided to sell, for higher price than normal,  one fire-lesser male and lesser female of the same clutch. Probably they are not carrier of the hidden gene but since we still don't know for sure what is about everything is possible.

We hatched the last eggs just before christmas the new season already started. From a first ultrasound exam seems a very good year but obviously is too early. The next 2-3 month will tell all about the new season. For the moment we are moving males around even if not all started to breed

Finally we got to the last hatch of the year: 1.1 fire, 0.2 lesser, 3.2 fire-lesser from normal female bred to fire-lesser male. It's almost Christmas and the new breeding season is already started. This confirm the fact that ball pythons in captivity lose their natural periodicity.

Some more hatching before the end of the season. We hatched some butter and enchi-butter a bit different from average. Not a big difference but the orange-red on the sides is been passed from the mother that is 2005 african selected ones. A path to follow...

Here 2 more pics of this "odd" animal that we hatched from a Fire-Lesser male and normal african farm-hatched female. The clutch result is: 1.2 normal, 1.1 fire, 0.1 lesser, 1.0 fire-lesser and 0.1 ??? Based on logical deduction the normal ones and the fires are 50% carrier of the "mistery" gene but not the lesser and the fire-lesser. We'll see...