Where do you start with proving out a dinker?

[adizziedoll]

OKay, so this is the year of some serious breeding, being out of college and all.

So my problem : I noticed some people selectively breed their dinkers, while others start from the floor and breed them to normals.

I don't know which approach I should take, as I have many unprovens and dinker projects. If I start from the ground, and breed dinker x normal, at least I'll know that the dinker is the source of anything unusual and exactly what the gene looks like. Then I could work my way up.

If I selectively breed, and I get something awesome, that would be great. But then I would have to work my way backwards to find out what came from where.

Im pretty sure that Im going to put the unproven calico to my yellowbelly pastel. I know what that the female is probably a calico, and that's that.

My main dilema is this pair:

Armani





Lassie





I think lassie is just going to turn out to be a nice blusher, and wonder if she should go with the pastel yellowbelly as well ... ack I dont know I'm so confused!!!

What do you guys do?

[Beardedragon]

Well, most people still pair up their Dinkers to morphs, unless none are availible, or they are REALLY special. Ive got a Black pastel female with no coloring on her head, and she is going to be paired up with my Lesser. should I get a few that are the same... Great!! I think it would be somewhat of a waist to breed dinkers to normals if I had morphs, or hets, on the site.

[Seneschal]

Well, I don't know about you, but if I were you, I'd pack Armani up in a box and ship her to me...

XD And if not that, then I'd definitely introduce her(?) to a cinnamon. That is a BEAUITUFL snake. Loooove the blushing. XD

[JoshJP7]

Ill be looking to prove out a dinker that looks very similar to your armani this winter. I have him scheduled to meet up with my pastel female. I dont have any normal females so I have no choice but to paid him with my pastel. Hopefully we both got something new and they make really cool super forms!! Best of luck with her

[adizziedoll]

Well you cannot leave me hanging like that mr. Where are the pictures of my armani's clutch mate!!

And armani is a male. I dont know if I should put armani and lassie together ... she is the only breedable special female I have, unless i GET CRACK-A-LACKIN on getting some others up to size.

[JoshJP7]

Gamble looks a little different than Armani but has the same type of blushing and a very similar pattern... This guy was captive hatched in africa and hopefully has something new going on.

[sho220]

Even if you, say, bred Armani to a normal female, you would have to breed him multiple times. The first year you may get a few normal looking offspring and some that may have inherited Armani's looks. If you're working with a subtle co-dom morph like a yellow belly, it would take several years to breed some babies, then breed a female that has Armani's looks, back to Armani to see if you get a super.

I'm still unsure about the whole straight up morph or just inherited looks thing. Unless of course there's a super.

If a yellow belly to yellow belly didn't produce a super, would it still be considered a genetic mutation or morph? Or would it just be a snake that tended to produce offspring that inherited it's parents looks...

I'm confused...

[Tawni]

So I got an import. A goodie bag so to speak. A dinker sub Saharan volta. Over 6300 grams. Such a tiny baby.. Lol well before I had to disassemble my hobby I bred her to my coral glow as he was the only option i had that was a dominant. I had no norms. She had 12 (huge!!) eggs. However sadly only 7 made it. My coral glow I've had since a baby. So I feel like a proud gramma anyways I am seeing a bunch of different markings. Nothing uber crazy but their bellies have me puzzled. I only had 1 coral glow baby and his/her markings are different. There's one I want to hold on to to see what may come but I am getting out of the hobby (??) And am unsure. Thought it would be fantastic to pair these 2 but now it just leaves me in questions. Some of their bellies are very busy. Any help will be good. Will send pics on request.

[jmcrook]

12yr old dead thread...


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