With co-dominant mutations you can produce visible mutants much much faster.



With a recessive project your visible mutant production is limited by how many adult at least het females you have. Sure you could produce hets but if you are a no-name those might be hard to sell. Say you want to start a piebald project. You either buy (expensive) or make your own het females to go with a het or homozygous pied male. Either way you have to wait years and years for the het females to grow up and produce at most 50% piebalds.



With a co-dominant project you can use already grown normal females to produce visible morphs the first year. You may already have more normal adult females than you could buy hatchling het females. If you have say even just four girls that will produce 6 eggs each and know how to breed them you could buy a single male mojave and possibly produce a dozen mojave's next year. Of course you might not get lucky with all of them so best to not count on all of them going but maybe you had 6 or 8 to start with.



So, if you want to take your time and hate to see prices drop much (they will almost always drop at least some) then go with recessive. Still in the 3 years it takes to grow the het females up they might have lost as much as 1 year of co-dominant depreciation.



If you have adult females and confidence that you can get them bred and don't mind working with and selling more animals at decreasing prices then go co-dominant. So what if mojave's are $500 next year (I don't think they will be), if you produce and sell 12 of them that's $6,000 more than you will make while your het pied females get a year closer to first producing.

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