Cookie and pitch were given to me by a friend and are ½ California king snake and ½ Mexican black king snake. They represent the lightest of the clutch, Cookie, and the darkest of the clutch, Pitch.
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That darkest one though… Gorgeous 
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I have a mighty need for one like your darker baber :o
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When you do these crosses, does it matter which is male/female to start? Would the offspring look different? Curious…
Pretty snakes, BTW!
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My favorite naturally occurring integrade. Very nice!
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Unfortunately there’s not enough data accessible by myself to say how much difference it makes on which parent is which sex. I have heard that with jungles the male should be the corn because a male cal king’s hemipenes are biv enough to actually injure a female corn. Aside from that i can’t really say at this point.
I would hazard a guess that in a large percentage of hybrids, it would be better off having the female be the bigger of the species.
If the female is the smaller of the two then I can see problems popping up when it comes to laying eggs.
That’s my uneducated guess though.
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