male to female ratio

What is your guys opinion on how many males to females you should have when breeding. I am going to start stocking up for future projects and was wondering what you think.

oops, meant to put this in breeding!

From what I gather, 1 male to 3-5 females is ideal. Unfortunately, you can't guarantee that the 1 male will be interested in all, or any, of the females. Some people have "backup" males lol.

ya i was thinking about 1:3 male to female. I am trying to start out slow and build my collection for breeding.

It kind of depends on what you have in your collection. Recessive projects may bring your male to female ratio down a bit. I have a pair of het axanthics but I will only attempt to breed that pair to each other. I don't plan on producing a bunch of 50% possible hets by pairing the male or female to a non het. Hope this makes sense.

Typically, I think you will find most shoot for a 1:4 ratio with a backup or two.

I went as high as 1:6, but that was with a large, established breeder male that eats very well. The way I do my rotation works best with 1:5, but I have a few younger males that will only be breeding 2-4 this season due to their age and size.

I have 2.5 right now. But 2 of my females wont be able to breed bc theyre babies. Im gunna do:
Fire x Pastel
Cinny x Cinny
Fire, Cinny x Normal

I may try and flip them around if they dont seem to be showing interest but thats the plan for now. :)

It really depends on what you're doing. I used to have a cinnamon male and a mojave male I used for projects. Now I have a savannah male so went from 2 to 1 male.

But I needed both males for specific projects and they each bred 1 female. So there nothing wrong with 1:1 if it makes sense for your projects.

I'm sitting 5:5 atm. As I'm trying to build my collection up. I'm not even sure if my two recent females are indeed females. So who knows right now.

What's your plans/projects you are aiming for?

There are a lot of projects that I want to do and it changes everyday lol. But I have a male pinstripe at around 600 grams right now and I want to pick up some breeder size normal females right now just to see and make sure that I can do it. I want to maybe pick up a morph female as well. I kind of figured to start I should have a high female to male ratio so I can sell off more babies to put more money back into my collection and build it. Assuming things work out that way

I like to keep it around 1.4 - 1.5