Hey Terry,

Well this reminds of me when i was telling you that if my Sentz hypo pyro female double clutches this year I'm going to put her with an Applegate male for double hets, but now I've re-thought that idea and if she does double clutch again I'm gonna keep her with the same male shes been breeding with now-(the het-hypoerythristic male) just because as you were saying, you cant be sure what fatherd the babys-(the applegate male, or the het-hypoerythristic male ?) and it would be nicer to know-but if I get bad eggs in the first clutch then i dont see a problem with going ahead and using a new male for the 2nd, because it would seem that the first male you used didnt get any good sperm in. Last year, my hypo female had layed that first clutch of bad eggs-(6), she was only with the male-(same male that ws bred x her the first time) for 1 time, and then laid her 2ndd clutch of 3 good eggs. So it could of been that only 1 breeding fertilzed them, or there was good sperm retained from previous breedings...?, but then you would think that the first clutch would of been good right ?, I dunno, just comming up with ideas. But it does make you think especially when your breeding for ceratin traits, or trying to make hets, or homos are whatever. Good topic though I think,

Jeff Teel

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