Loaning your het female to a homozygous male is a tough question.



There is no standard really for how to split but in general favor would go to the owner of the more valuable snake and also to the host of the breeding. I think it would not normally be the case that someone would loan out a homozygous stripe male because of his value and the fact that the owner could be rotating him through other females in addition to the breeding loan het female. So the owner of the homozygous male will often not only have the more valuable animal in the pairing but will also be the host.



But looking at it from the het owner's side your could keep the het female at home and breed it to a relatively inexpensive het male and expect about 1/4 of a clutch of homozygous and 3/4 clutch 66% possible hets. Bred to the homozygous male that would be 1/2 clutch homozygous and 1/2 clutch hets but even with an even split that comes out to 1/4 clutch homozygous for the het female owner. If you give the owner of the homozygous the first/odd picks that would on average loose another 1/2 of a homozygous animal (half the time there would be an odd number of them) so from the homozygous offspring standpoint you might be better off by ½ a morph on average keeping your het at home. The main advantage for the het female owner might be getting 1/4 clutch (minus the on average 1/2 baby for odd numbers if the male owner picks first turn) of 100% hets by doing the loan rather than 3/4 clutch of 66% hets. But even from the het side you should well end up with more het offspring breeding your own het X het rather than doing the loan to a homozygous male. You should get half a clutch of hets from breeding het X het you just wouldn't know for sure which ones they are out of the ¾ clutch of non stripes but odds are there are twice as many hets in there as you would get from the loan.



So, with an even split it would come out much better for the owner of the homozygous male than the owner of the het female. But there may be other good reasons to do the loan like helping out the homozygous owner and helping to produce more morphs quicker and perhaps getting an unrelated pairing.

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