You can always start of with a 50% possible het male but I wouldn't recommend that.

This is what I did. First purchase a het male. Breed him to normal females. Hold back the daughers (50% possible hets). Grow them up. Then 1 year before they are breedable pick-up either another het male as to avoid in-breeding, or an actual caramel male (the course I took).

Year 3 breed your male to the holdback females and you should prove some out as hets and in doing so produce Caramels.



Hope this helps.

Markus
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