Planning for breedings

[starmom]

I'm wondering if people develop breeding plans for their females? Do these pans extend several seasons out?
I don't have any breeding road maps and suppose I ought to get started on working on them; at least for my three females that will breed next season (a spider and two normals).
Should I start at the end result, with what I'd like to wind up with and work backwards, or....?
I am certain that I'll be breeding my spider with the lemon but am uncertain as to where to go with the normals. I have a lesser, mojo, pastel het hypo, and lemon to pair the normal girls up with. The following season all of my girls will be ready: mojo, hypo, het hypo, axanthic, albino, spider, normal, normal, and pastel.
Any help on this for me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

[Gloryhound]

Not that I really know as we are just playing this year, but what we are doing is choosing some things we want to shoot for and listing priorities based on that. Start with your first prioity and lay out the steps to get there.

Example would be Snow. Depending on what you have to start it could progress differently. For us we have a Male double het for VPI snow already. We plan on breeding him to our large normal girl and getting some possible double het girls for hold backs. Since the hold backs will not be old enough the following season we will breed him to out Female Het VPI Axanthic with hopes of making Axanthics that are possible double het for snow along with normal females double het for snow. Again the following season none of the second batch will be large enough, but some of the first batch of possible double hets will be so he will be bred to them and again he will be bred to our female Het VPI Axanthic (Why not as Axanthics are always cool). You can see how this one will continue to progress. In the mean time we will be selling off most of the possible double het males for those who have the patience to prove out and like to play the odds game rather than pay big money for solid hets or full blown morphs.

In the mean time we plan on some single season pairings and possibly some of the offspring from these pairings will be held back for future single season projects and new multiple season projects. As our collection grows, so does our options.

We figure you got to have some hold backs every year as long as you can afford to feed them.

[Inferno]

our plans....me personaly aiming for super spinner blasts and we may mix in a few recessive genes in there too....i would love to be the first to produce a hypo spinner blast or an axanthic spinner blast. big dreams i know for someone who has just a lemon pastel...but it is a very long term plan.

from this years breedings i will be keeping a 1.2 of lemon pastels then i plan on buying a spider and a pinstripe to breed to the two pastel females i will keep a 1.0 bumblebee and 0.1 or 0.2 lemon blasts then breed these together for a 1.0 spinner blast or even hopfuly a 1.0 super spinner blast then i would start mixing in the recessive genes by breeding the 1.0 super spinner blast to a 0.2 hypo or 0.2 axanthic and hope for 1.0 bumblebee het axanthic/hypo and 0.2 lemon blast het axanthic/hypo then grow these up to produce a hypo/axanthic spinner blast or an hypo/axanthic super spinner blast.

my other half jusat wants a BEL and anytrhing purple lol

[Rapture]

I had quite a few dinking projects this year so planning was pretty easy... one weird male per normal female, hets to hets, and a female for the male pastel. One of the het breedings didn't seem to be going well so my male pastel gained another female. Next years pairings will depend on how many females I have and what the outcome was from all the dinking projects, as well as if my younger morph males will be up to breeding by then. I'm not really going to set a plan until the season gets closer, and then I'm sure something will happen to make plans change a bit...

[KMS]

I set Goals 1 year 3 year and 5 year..To see projects through.
Kevin Stoltz
www.kmsreptiles.com