Posted by:
BrandonSander
at Wed Nov 28 22:44:11 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BrandonSander ]
I have 1.1 100% het Genetic Stripes. They are both big enough to breed. My question is, if you could loan the female out to someone with a Breeder male genetic stripe would you loan it and make stripes and 100% hets and split the clutch or would you breed your hets and make possible hets and stripes?
Two thoughts on this:
1.) Loaning her out would kind of be the same as wasting the money you spend on the het. male (at least for this year).
2.) I would only do this if I was guaranteed a homozygous GS out of the deal (IF one hatches).
Also, I have breeder male spider and cinnamon. I have two breeder female albinos. I could loan the albinos out and make double het albino pieds, snows and/or albino clowns or make my own spider and cinnamon het albinos. If you were in my shoes, would you loan them out and split clutches (and if yes would you do pieds, snows or clowns) or would you just make het spiders and cinnys?
Again, two thoughts:
1.) Get a pair of normal females (or whatever you can afford/floats your boat) to breed with your Spider and Cinny males.
2.) Quantity means nothing without quality. If you DO loan these females out... I would want at least a 1.1 pair of the double het. offspring. I may sound greedy to some... but that would be the only way I'd do it.
As far as which combo to go with? That's entirely up to you.
I hate the idea of splitting clutches, but it seems like I'd end up with better things and better projects. If I keep everything, I would have have more quantity, probably, but not as cool animals. So I guess the question was just simplified, Quantity or Quality???
Sounds like you've already made up your mind.
[ Hide Replies ]
|
RE: Breeder Loan opinions - BrandonSander, Wed Nov 28 22:44:11 2007