Who's your daddy clutches
I'm too much of a planner and like to know what to expect in a clutch so I haven't mixed males to the same female before. How common is it for the clutch to contain morphs that were only possible from both males genes? Is there any correlation between the male most recently or who was first paired with the female being more likely to father the clutch or is it all just random? I'm planning some of my pairings for the end of the year and can't decide on some matches so debating mixing a few males.
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I have the feeling it would depend on the specific pairings and whether you are using dominant to incomplete dominant and recessives. Or vice versa in any combination. Surely some would be random. Other pairings may or may not negate the typical morph characteristics bc you are using a dual male project. Just some possibilities.
Re: Who's your daddy clutches
I love "who's yer daddy" clutches. :D
But each egg can only have two parents so no mixing of the genes held by separate males is possible. I may have misunderstood your question though. :confusd:
Re: Who's your daddy clutches
As I understand it, while you can have multiple males sire babies within the same clutch, it is less common than 50/50 odds. Also as Dr. Del said, each egg has a chance of being fertilized by either male, but not by both and I don't believe it makes any difference which order the pairings are done.
One thing to consider as you do pairings, is it may not be wise to use both recessive and (dominant or co-dominant) males with the same female unless there are other genes present in the recessive that are unique to it. For example if you paired a Pastel Pied and an Enchi male to the same female, you could be assured that anything with Pastel present is het for Pied. Subsequently anything Enchi would not be het for Pied. However, any normal produced may or may not be a recessive and you have no way of knowing but to raise it up and breed, which could turn into a lot of time spent with no fruits for your labor. The other side is having to sell them all as normal even though they could be het, because you can't say with any certainty whether or not they are het since the co-dominant male could be the sire.
I hope that helps.
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dr del
I love "who's yer daddy" clutches. :D
But each egg can only have two parents so no mixing of the genes held by separate males is possible. I may have misunderstood your question though. :confusd:
Oh yes I knew there would only be 1 father to each egg, I just meant the possibility to some of the babies having 1 father and others the other.
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rlditmars
As I understand it, while you can have multiple males sire babies within the same clutch, it is less common than 50/50 odds. Also as Dr. Del said, each egg has a chance of being fertilized by either male, but not by both and I don't believe it makes any difference which order the pairings are done.
One thing to consider as you do pairings, is it may not be wise to use both recessive and (dominant or co-dominant) males with the same female unless there are other genes present in the recessive that are unique to it. For example if you paired a Pastel Pied and an Enchi male to the same female, you could be assured that anything with Pastel present is het for Pied. Subsequently anything Enchi would not be het for Pied. However, any normal produced may or may not be a recessive and you have no way of knowing but to raise it up and breed, which could turn into a lot of time spent with no fruits for your labor. The other side is having to sell them all as normal even though they could be het, because you can't say with any certainty whether or not they are het since the co-dominant male could be the sire.
I hope that helps.
That's a good call to not end up with questionable hets. I was only considering 2 different codoms so all genes in question would be apparent.