When I first started getting into breeding I bought a bunch of 1.1 hets for the recessive projects that I wanted to work with (the albino project aside we went with the homo male) and co-dom males with sub adult or adult normal females.



After spending a year raising the recessives I realized that now I have all these males that are ready to breed but I don't have any females to put with them - and not wanting to go the whole possible het route (eww who has the time and space) - I sold off most of the males and bought a bunch of visual males to pair up with the het females this season. For some of the higher end morphs where I couldn't afford a visual I am still going with the het to het pairings - but considering the time it takes to raise these up and the limited return I don't think it's worth it and I'm rather disappointed with these projects - especially considering I can buy a pair of genetic stripes today for the price I paid for the hets a couple of years ago and at the end of the season if I'm lucky I'll be in the same boat with two years worth of additional work. Anyway I am really not looking forward to trying to sell possible hets or even the hets from my homo to het projects. I guess if the money is not there then that's the way you gotta go (hets that is) but I'd rather not have to deal with them at all - unfortunately all of my favorite morphs are recessive - LOL.



As for the co-doms - I got rid of most of my co-dom projects - those that I kept are going to be used for mixes (eg: pastel het for something else) which will mostly be hold back projects. And because I dumped my co-dom projects I had so many left over adult normal females at the beginning of the season I loaned them all out to other people.



Its funny when I look back at my projected breeding plans from the previous years I realize that I've shifted direction quite a few times. I can't imagine how the big breeders with thousands of projects keep to their plan (or do they?)!



Boy I rambled didn't I.
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Tosha

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