that's the right question to ask. Look at it this way. you raise up your het male and breed him at 1.5 yrs old to 5 females. 3 of them take and give you 6 eggs each. you do a great job and hatch out 18 poss het babies. If you are lucky and get a 50/50 ratio of males to females then you have 9 females that are 50% poss het. so now you need to wait another 2.5-3.5 yrs to find out if you hit the odds on your females (all the males could be hets and females could all be norm). now let's say when you breed those poss het females that you actually have het's but get bad odds on those and don't actually get a pied in the first breedings. now you have no idea what animals to breed the following years as you may only be producing more possible het animals. Now if you bought a guarenteed 100% pied pair and in 2.5 yrs your likelyhood of producing at least 1 pied is greater and if you bred your het male to normal females then on your third yr you could have a male pied to prove out the poss het females that you created. Make sence? And yes i know the odds are that when you breed out those poss het females to the het you will more than likely produce a pied, but you may not. I had a normal female breed to a pastel male this yr and give me 6 eggs, all hatched and only got 1 pastel, luckily it was a female but it could have been a male. that is the same as breeding a het anything to a normal, the odds might kick you in the butt. it all boils down to how much money you are willing to spend on this hobby, it's too late to get into it to make a career out of it, but you can make a decent amount of money on the side to pay for itself.

Josh Hutto
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2.3 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2, BHB x 2)

1.1 het albino (ben siegel, gulf coast)

1.2 het citrus ghost(gulf coast line)

1.0 citrus ghost (gulf coast line)

0.1 graz pastel female

1.6 05 normal bp's

0.6 04 normal bp's

2.5 adult normal bp's (some need breeding to see if norm)

4 various corns

0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)

1.0 american pit bull terrior

1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)

1.0 grey cat

1.1 bearded dragons



a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrior as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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