Well, I guess I have been extremely lucky in this regard. I started in 2003-2004 and purchased 5.5 het pieds from 6 different breeders. All of the males were up to size and breeding their 2nd winter and all females on their third. I have since raised up 10 of my own female pieds, and at least that many het and possible het females that I produced from that original group. All of those pied females successfully bred and produced by their third year (One of them actually on her 2nd!). I did have 2 female possible hets that took an extra season (or 2) to produce even though they were up to size and breeding on schedule. I'm pretty sure all of my breedstock are descendents of Kahl's line male pieds that were bred to high quality female normals to produce the hets I bought.
The morph I have struggled with is pastels. I bought 2 nice looking females back when they were $2500. Neither ever produced for me. I finally ended up trading a visual pied for a male pastel het pied because I totally failed at producing my own pastel het pied. I was really happy that I hatched a male pastel pied last year. I'm afraid of those female pastels!!!
Paul

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• Pieds = No eaters? - Bolitochrome, Sun Jun 13 19:22:30 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - JYohe, Sun Jun 13 19:54:15 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - thunderpaws, Sun Jun 13 21:19:32 2010
• Pied = Great Eater - Albino = BAD eater - SPJ01, Sun Jun 13 22:34:01 2010
• RE: Pied = Great Eater - Albino = BAD eater - Bolitochrome, Sun Jun 13 23:21:55 2010
• amels - JYohe, Mon Jun 14 15:39:14 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - 4ktung, Mon Jun 14 01:09:20 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - ssnakes, Mon Jun 14 08:46:18 2010
• Tried it all, not the problem. - Bolitochrome, Mon Jun 14 14:31:45 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - toshamc, Mon Jun 14 09:59:10 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - Eyeball30, Mon Jun 14 19:05:14 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - Brandon Osborne, Tue Jun 15 00:10:02 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - RandyRemington, Tue Jun 15 00:35:23 2010
• RE: Pieds ....a suggestion - ssnakes, Tue Jun 15 09:53:55 2010
• RE: Pieds ....a suggestion - Bolitochrome, Tue Jun 15 16:35:46 2010
• RE: Pieds = No eaters? - PiedPeddler, Tue Jun 15 12:06:03 2010
• This female Pied cant EAT - PastelDreamMorph, Tue Jun 15 18:23:04 2010
• Should be This female Pied CAN EAT - PastelDreamMorph, Tue Jun 15 18:39:13 2010