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Rotating males through females

jpman78 Jul 24, 2007 12:29 PM

What's everyone's policy on rotating multiple males through a female? Good idea? More likely to get offspring?

I am of the opinion that if you are going for sheer numbers (as many clutches as possible but don't care about the outcome) that it's a wise idea to rotate multiple codom/dom males through your normal girls, that way your chances of actually producing are higher but the odds of you getting a specific morph are less.

Isn't it overall better to rotate two males through a female than just one? (assuming you have an extra male of the same genetic)

Like with 2 het males to a het female or two pastels to a female pastel?......

Just looking for opinions.
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John Dague
Midwest Reptiles
www.mwreptiles.com

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dmasio13 Jul 24, 2007 07:36 PM

I ran a lemon, a mojave, and a cinnamon thru the same female and got 0.1 lemon, 0.1 mojave, and 1.0 cinny and 4 normals. I will take a pic tomorrow. I am not to happy about the quanity of morphs but its the only odd out female I had so I bred the 3 co-dom males to her.
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Damian Macioce
www.strongholdreptiles.com

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