What would YOU do? (again)

I have 4 females and 3 males ready to breed. I would be equally happy with ANY of the combos. Would YOU:
pick certain combos and go for it?
-OR-
rotate all 3 males through all 4 females (since multi-sired clutches are possible)?
Thanks!!

Ok, the morphs are:
Female: Male:
Butter Pinstripe
Pastel Pastel
Cinnamon Cinnamon
Normal

Depends on the morphs

I think I would take the first option and pick the certain combos.

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Females: Butter, Pastel, Cinnamon, Normal

Males: Pinstripe, Pastel, Cinnamon

Female Pastel to all the males.
Female Butter to male Pinstripe
Female cinnamon to male pastel and cinnamon
Female normal to all males

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Originally Posted by llovelace

female pastel to all the males.
Female butter to male pinstripe
female cinnamon to male pastel and cinnamon
female normal to all males

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x2.

I would put the pinstripe to the pastel for sure. Im on the fence on the others. I would stay away from ciny to cinny because of the risk of tail kinkers when you do that. Its just something in the cinny gene. Call it a weak gene or whatever it just seems to happen. Plus the super is so much nicer looking black to black.

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Originally Posted by mikeandsheleen

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Females: Butter, Pastel, Cinnamon, Normal

Males: Pinstripe, Pastel, Cinnamon

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Female normal to all the males
Female pastel to male pastel
Female butter to cinni
Female cinni to pin or cinni or both

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Female Pastel to all the males.
Female Butter to male Pinstripe
Female cinnamon to male pastel and cinnamon
Female normal to all males

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My preference is to pedigree the babies by mating one male to one female instead of rotating all the males through. YMMV.

pinstripe x butter
cinnamon x pastel
pastel x cinnamon
pinstripe x normal

Two reasons for the pinstripe x normal:
I like pinstripes. YMMV
A pinstripe x normal mating tests the pinstripe to see if he has two pinstripe genes (homozygous pinstripe) or one pinstripe gene paired with a normal gene. If homozygous pinstripe, all the babies would be expected to be pinstripe. If not homozygous pinstripe, each baby has a 50% chance of being pinstripe and a 50% chance of being normal.

Good luck with the breeding, whatever your final choices.

It all depends on what your future breeding plans are. Are you aiming for certain combos?...are you going to hold back any? are you going to sell them all, therefore you would do combos that bring the highest $ return.

I personally would do one male to one female. This way you have an idea of what you are going to get and plan accordingly.
I'm not a fan of mixing and matching males and females...

Possible to sell all 3 and upgrade to Pastel Lesser or other breedable double???

cinnamon to cinnamon: i would only breed the cinnamon to cinnamon just to get a better chance of getting the super cinny
pinstripe to pastel: Lemon blast.
cinnamon to butter: Looks cool too.
pastel to pastel: Super pastels, breed the super pastel to the lemon blast for a better chance of killers
Pinstripe to the normal: Males can breed early so I would get the pinstripe that has some good weight and breed it to the pastel in order to get lemon blast.
-BTW it can go either way. You can go pair the pastel to pastel to get the supers and hopefully get girl. next breeding season, get the pinstripe male to breed to the pastel to breed lemon blasts. OR the other way around where you breed the pinstripe and pastel first.

Butter female to Cinnamon male
Cinnamon female to Pastel male
Pastel Female to Butter male
Normal female to All males

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Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch

Female normal to all the males
Female pastel to male pastel
Female butter to cinni
Female cinni to pin or cinni or both

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i agree, maybe female butter to male pastel and cinni

Thank you for all of the input!!
This gave me a couple of ideas that I hadn't thought of!
BUT....I just purchased (as in TONIGHT) a breeder size butter male to add to the mix!!
Now it's gonna get interesting!