First Time Breeder - Got some questions

[Evilme5229]

This is my first time at breeding. I have a bigger collection that I anticipated, but I wanted to start out with my ready to go female and male. Although I know that I would get het ghosts, I figured that its good start to make sure I do things right before I breed my pewter to my female pastel and regular. I'm even considering throwing the ghost in with my pastel to see what happens when hes off 3 days with my normal. Any thoughts? Also, what do a ghost and a pastel make?

So I just put my male ghost and female regular together. It seems like a match since they are constantly together. I'm wondering how long am I looking at before she starts to show any results that she pregnant? Also, should I be putting him in her case 3 days on and 3 days off until March, or when I should stop putting them in the same cage and have them back in there own cages?

Any thoughts on this matter would be awesome. Thanks

[cinderbird]

congrats on the breeding

To answer your questions...

Pewters and patels are co-dom morphs. (pewers being a combination of Pastel and Cinnamon).

Ghosts are a recessive gene, also known as Hypomelanistic.

The problem with breeding a codom and a recessive to a female pastel is that you don't know which animal sired each baby (unless you get a cinnamon, super pastel, sterling or pewter, then you know the pewter sired the baby). If you get pastels or normals you don't know who fathered them, and therefor you dont know if the babies are possibly het ghost or not.

Many breeders will put multiple codom or dom males in with a female, but will only have one recessive in with her if they are breeding a recessive or a het. This guarantees that the offspring are a product of that particular male and are hets for his genes. If you mean to sell the offspring it is not fair to label them even as possible hets if you aren't 100% sure which animal sired the clutch.

Hopefully that made some sense.

[Evilme5229]

Thank you, I'm very excited on breeding.

I'm not breeding my male pewter yet. Hes not going to be ready until this coming Fall.

I am breeding my male ghost to my normal. I'm just debating on breeding my male ghost to my pastel. So I will know who fathered both clutches if it happens. I wouldn't mix it up like that, I would rather know exactly what ratios I'm getting. I'm just wondering if my pastel does rear a clutch what the babies would look like. Are we looking at some combo ghost pastel or am going to get strickly pastels. Either way its still exciting. lol. I'm not doing this for money or anything, just the experience and the joy of my collection. If ghost doesnt show up I know they will be hets.

This fall, I wont be breeding my ghost. He will have a break so to speak. lol.

[cinderbird]

Thank you, I'm very excited on breeding.

I'm not breeding my male pewter yet. Hes not going to be ready until this coming Fall.

I am breeding my male ghost to my normal. I'm just debating on breeding my male ghost to my pastel. So I will know who fathered both clutches if it happens. I wouldn't mix it up like that, I would rather know exactly what ratios I'm getting. I'm just wondering if my pastel does rear a clutch what the babies would look like. Are we looking at some combo ghost pastel or am going to get strickly pastels. Either way its still exciting. lol. I'm not doing this for money or anything, just the experience and the joy of my collection. If ghost doesnt show up I know they will be hets.

This fall, I wont be breeding my ghost. He will have a break so to speak. lol.

Breeding a ghost to a normal:
100% het ghost

Breeding a ghost to a pastel:
50% of the clutch is pastels, 50% of the clutch is normal ( the percentages aren't basted on the clutch, but per egg).
ENTIRE clutch is 100% het for ghost.

They will look like regular pastels but carry the gene for ghosts. If you raise up a female pastel het ghost you can breed it back to your male ghost and then have a chance for pastel ghosts (POGs, assuming your ghost is an orange ghost) or breed two of the pastels 100% ghost together for a chance at super pastel ghosts (SPOGs).