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RE: Which to purchase?

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Posted by: AllBalledUp at Sun Feb 5 23:13:07 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by AllBalledUp ]  
   

If you are talking about buying hatchlings, then ladies first -- always. Females take three years to make breeding weight, compared to one year for males. So if you are debating between a m/piebald and a f/het pied as your first purchase, I would say neither. Instead, buy a f/pied now, and then in two years when you need to start getting a male ready for her, the price on male pieds will probably have dropped to where you can buy a male pied rather than a het. That enables you to take luck out of the breeding equation.

   

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