Why do you pair mulriple sires w/ one female?

[Riv]

Hello everybody. = P I was talking to my fiance about future pairings and got to thinking about why anyone woukd use multiple sires for a singkr female.
The only reasons I coukd think of were if you want to produce multiple morphs with a low number of clutches so you went for a spkit clutch, or if you got a splut cluth full of codoms then yiur chances of recognizing a chimera are higger( thougg of course it wouldnt effect your odds of getting one).

Personally, I like the idea of knowing with 100% certainty that my percentage chance of getting THIS morph is THIS higg you know? With multiple sires most odds are really up in the air arent they?
So lets hear it. Why do YOU do it. And how has it worked out for you? Ever get a super awesome clutch as a result?

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sorry for the typos my phone went platinum won't let me fix it.=(

[Izzys Keeper]

I think the biggest reason is to make sure the job gets done. Sometimes snakes lock but the female doesnt get pregnant. Usually people just throw a second male in as reassurance

[JaGv]

i would think to get a variety of morphs one may be aiming to hatch out

[Mike41793]

Well even though the snakes lockup doesnt mean the female will get knocked up. (Same with humans haha). So if you put a second male in then it will raise your chances. Especially if you dont see them lock up at all. Bc sometimes theyll do it and youll never see them so you dont know for sure. Also as long as your careful and dont do a stupid pairing then you can end up with multiple sires. By stupid pairing i mean you wouldnt wanna pair a pastel and a hypo to a normal. Because then you dont know if any normals you produce are 100%het hypos or just normals from the pastel daddy. If you do a hypo mojo and a hypo to a het hypo female then that would be fine. Beause all the babies have an equal chance at being het hypo. Im pretty sure i said all that right haha

[Riv]

Wow thatreally is an incredibly ideal scenario for multiple sires haha. And I havent had my first clutch yet, but are the odds of impregnating the female really low enough to do thag though? I was under the impression you just kept pairing till you were sure. I mean they male would have months to do the job in theory right? If id seen multiple locks and she wasnt gravid after that long I would start questioning fertility I think. But youre right that is a quick way to make SURE you did all you could as fast as possible.

[GenePirate]

Sometimes I switch co-dom males just because I've changed my mind about what I want. Sometimes it's because I want both outcomes. For example, if I have only one super pastel female and I want a pastel enchi, but I also really want a pastel het red, I might put both enchi and het red males in with her. But, as others have said, sometimes it's just last minute panic--if you haven't seen a lock or aren't sure if male #1 did the job and prior years indicate that ovulation might be imminent. Hope this helps.

[Riv]

I suppose that makes sense. Man, it would kill me not to know exactly what to expect haha. But in a scenario like that you guys are right I would be happier to be expecting at all and not know, rather than stick to my guns and wind up with nothing.

[Kinra]

I think a "who's your daddy" clutch adds even more excitement to breeding because there are so many more possibilities that could pop out. I can't wait for my "who's your daddy" clutch to hatch and see who got the job done.

[mustang91302]

a local breeder bred his pinstripe to a female that he bred his desert to the previous year and wound up with three desert pins and a few pins

[Kinra]

a local breeder bred his pinstripe to a female that he bred his desert to the previous year and wound up with three desert pins and a few pins

Was the female a pinstripe? If not, then it's not possible to produce a desert pin from breeding a male desert and pin to a the same female (unless the female was also a desert but I don't believe those have been successfully bred yet). Both males can't father the same baby.