I might’ve read something wrong during my endless ball python education.
If I pair a female with two different males is it possible to get babies from mom/dad A and mom /dad B in the same clutch?
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Yes!
Example:
Female Ghost Butter was bred to a caramel ghost male and a Banana Yellowbelly male
4 eggs= 2 ghost butters (CaramelGlow dad)
1 Butter
1 Butter Yellowbelly
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It is always best if your going to use multiple males to use different males that will lead you with a CLEAR explanation. In others words if you have a normal female and you want to breed two males use a pastel and then a champagne do that no matter what it would be clear as to who fathered each egg.
If you do something like ghost female to a ghost pied and a ghost clown well all your babies are ghosts but you don’t know if they are het pied or het clown!
Hope this helps a little
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Yes this helped a lot, thanks very much.
I think I’m going to add an experimental pairing just to see what I get I just have to figure out what males I wanna put to a normal female.
Thanks again!
There are also a couple of companies now that offer dna testing for paternity. I’d have to look to find them again but you can probably find them just as easily.
Lol how much is that?
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Let me know how that goes, sounds expensive.
I havent needed the service myself but I have seen others use it. Don’t have any idea of the cost.
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I know of one here in the UK but I’m not sure I’d be allowed to post a link to them on here.
This Google link will help you find one though
Dual sired clutches happen, not often but they do, when you pair two males to one female you need to be smart about your pairings that’s what it comes down to, especially when dealing with recessive.
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wouldnt the genome have to be mapped for reptile DNA testing to be effective? I didnt think that had been done for ball pythons?------disregard I see he stated paternity testing. Too bad we cant get an independently wealthy herper out there that would pay to have the genome mapping done so we could do full DNA testing lol
We could do with our own Elon “common” Musk 
That was a poor turtle joke… I’ll see myself out
Jk if I had thought of it first I would have gone for it too
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It was either that or Bill Gators
I think my clutch has been fathered by two different males. I paired a female albino and a het albino male. But because of my other male refuse eating for 5+ months back then, I tried to mate him with my female (I only had 3 snakes). They just hatched, and from my first look, I have 1 albino, 3 or 4 normal and 2 or 3 lesser or fire. I’m not sure, it’s my first time breeding them. I guess I will have to wait until they got out of their eggs to get a better look at them. I didn’t think it was possible, but it is
I forgot to mention that my other male is a fire lesser
I did this accidentally, I didn’t think it was possible
Lesser and fire are very easy to tell apart.
What you may have problems with are telling low expression fire from the normals until they get a bit of size and a few sheds.
Thankfully because Mom is an albino, all of the offspring are het albino, but you wouldn’t know which of the ‘normals’ are from which dad. I don’t think it matters much though, just for record keeping.
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Been in this boat before, lol.