Has anyone had experience with breeding a Chicken Springs Rosy Boa with a Black Bay of LA Rosy Boa? And if you did what were your results?
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Are they from different localities? Supposedly that’s a “no no”. But I am not judging you in any way! I am curious about this as well.
@deanaii Any thoughts! 
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Yeah, pretty much ditto here. Ad long as labeling is honest, then I’m ok with it. But I don’t have tips on breeding those localities. I’d probably just do what I’d do for a same-locality pairing. 
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So they are different localities correct? Right?
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I’m no expert in their localities. I’m not familiar with these. I’m not sure that neighboring or overlapping localities respect our hesitation to mix their genes.
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Duh! I didn’t even think about nature! Thank you 
Dean!
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Given that from what I understand…one is an Arizona locality and the other is from southern Mexico and not the California LA I would be hesitant to breed them together.
This is definitely a moral standpoint with wanting to preserve the locality polymorphic appearance and purity. However… That goes out the window if wanting to produce particular morphs that aren’t natural in those localities. Like Kalatoa SD reticulated pythons carrying recessive anery gene and introducing it to mainland Retics.
In the end it’s all up to you, but as mentioned, be honest and if you do sell the offspring label them as Bay of CA/Chicken Spring cross. There are breeders who do want to preserve localities so it can cause issues if offspring do tend to look more like one locality over the other.
I don’t have any references for what a cross of that kind would look like unfortunately.
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