Breeding normal male, het for pied question
So I got a normal male ball from a guy who was downsizing and he said it was a het for pied that he had bought as a hatchling (no parents to prove it). Someday, with ok from the hubby I'd love to breed him. Is it worth the investment in a pied (keeping in mind I'm not exactly rich so it would require at least saving for a year) to get a pied female and see without proof if he carries the gene or should I aim for a lower cost morph that I know should produce at least some of the females morph?
Re: Breeding normal male, het for pied question
unfortunately that male is not worth breeding since you do not know he is truly 100% het pied.
you can get male het pieds for almost nothing now and you can get a variety of codom het pieds for a little bit of nothing too.
wouldn't make any sense to get a het or a visual female and raise them up for a few years to breed to what could very well be a normal male.
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Re: Breeding normal male, het for pied question
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RobertsKitty
So I got a normal male ball from a guy who was downsizing and he said it was a het for pied that he had bought as a hatchling (no parents to prove it). Someday, with ok from the hubby I'd love to breed him. Is it worth the investment in a pied (keeping in mind I'm not exactly rich so it would require at least saving for a year) to get a pied female and see without proof if he carries the gene or should I aim for a lower cost morph that I know should produce at least some of the females morph?
If u want to prove the male out then just get a female pied buy her young u can one from 400-600 ... if ur male isn't het at least the whole clutch would be .. I believe .. for u to buy another visual morph female that is het u would be just wasting money cause u have no idea if ur male is deff het .. and a visual female morph het pied will cost u about the same as a female pied .. if u got face book check out Ben Siegel he has auctions all the time and i see a lot of pied go for around 400$... worse case scenario u get a beautiful pied to add to ur collection and if ur het doesn't prove out u can always throw a baby back at mom to shoot for more