Quote Originally Posted by MrLang View Post
This is a good place for me to bring this up and I could probably get an answer more easily elsewhere but...

This business about "Male Makers"... I see the prices going down like crazy on these guys and people are always quoting "male maker" but some are not. If I understand correctly the issue is that they are not producing females? I'm surprised people are diving into the project with that knowledge. Yeah, the offspring look cool... but how much room do people have for males and all of the male combos that come out of the pairings. Think about how low the single gene males will be after a season when everyone holds back a multi-gene and decides to sell their single gene males. Too volatile for me.
I think that the thought behind 'male-makers' is the market for combo morphs. EX: breed your male maker to an adult female pied, hold back all the male babies which will be bananas, power feed the heck out of them and you'll be able to get at least one of them up to breeding size quickly so you can breed it back to it's mother the following season and produce banana pieds in only a year. Personally I think it's a benefit that's a bit overblown.