introducing multiple males?

This is for future reference, I'm quite a ways away from applying this information, but, I've read about the large breeders putting their males in with different females throughout the season and I'm wondering if this is a common practice for smaller breeders as well or do most folks just make a single pairing?

There are a few of my females that get multiple "boyfriends" during breeding season

One male is used to get a specific out come.

I've used multiple males on one female in the past. Who's your daddy clutches are fun. Also, more than one male can father a clutch of eggs.

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Originally Posted by Jason Bowden

One male is used to get a specific out come.

I've used multiple males on one female in the past. Who's your daddy clutches are fun. Also, more than one male can father a clutch of eggs.

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Really? So then there would be multiple outcomes within a single clutch, does it happen where there are multiple contributions to a single animal?
That is to say, that one member of the clutch has attributes of multiple dads?

No, each egg can only be fertilized by one dad, for instance I paired my normal female to a spider and a pastel, got a 10 egg clutch of 4 pastels, 4 spiders, 2 normals

I do it every year with at least one or two females. :gj:

I did it last year and only with Dominant and co-dominan gene males that way you don't end up with any hets.
Last year I had some young males that this was their first year breeding so I paired up a spider a pastel and a pinstripe withe a normal female and had 9 eggs.
Out of the 9 all hatched and I got a male Spider and a Female Pinstripe and the rest were just normals.