Pieds????

[monk90222]

I often wonder how many people do this.

I know for a fact that many possible het males are sold as normals.

[Bluebead]

I agree. Most likely if you buy a pied male, a breeder would give you a deal on some 100% het pied females.

Pied male to alot of het females if you can afford it. All of the babies will be at least 100% hets and you have better odds of getting a clutch in the first place.
Plus if you have some normal breeder females you can start producing hets and making some money back in your first season.
I wish I had the coin to do this!

if money was no object buy a lightning pied and start making double hets!

[Corvid]

I would buy a het female, and then try to find a stud pied male to breed with. That way you end up with pieds and hets.
Then the first pied you ever own will be the one YOU made!

[Bluebead]

I would buy a het female, and then try to find a stud pied male to breed with. That way you end up with pieds and hets.
Then the first pied you ever own will be the one YOU made!

Good call!
That is the cheapest fast way to produce pieds and 100% hets. You do lose part of your clutch depending on your agreement with the pied owner, but a breeding loan would be sweet!

[Denial]

Oh so even if you breed a pied to a het pied its not guaranteed youll even get a pied its just a 50/50 shot right?

[Corvid]

Oh so even if you breed a pied to a het pied its not guaranteed youll even get a pied its just a 50/50 shot right?

That's Correct.
50% chance of a pied.
50% chance of het pied.

Good odds, in my opinion.

[MarkS]

If I could have afforded it back when I got my pair of hets, I would have gone with pied to het pied instead of het pied to het pied. You'll produce a pied either way eventually, but you also have to think about what you're going to do with the other babies. And 100% het pieds are MUCH easier to find homes for then 66% het pieds.

[Denial]

Yea I know one way or the other I will have at least one pied. Im not really looking to breed a het to het

[dizzy]

Personally I bought 4 %50 het pied 08 females, since possible hets are so much cheaper and I figure with 4 there's gotta be atleast one het pied... And I am saving up for a visual pied male born in 09 'cus the price will probably drop and this way they will hopefully age/size out the same year.

I'm scared though that none of my possibles will prove out

3 of them are sisters from a clutch of 6 and one person bought the other 3, so if she got ALL the hets and I got all the normals then

lol

So maybe %100 hets are the way to go.... I'm pretty happy with my decision. Even if they're all normals they still all have crazy awesome patterns. And they'll still produce hets when bred to a visual so I can sell the babies either way... Maybe not sell for much $$ but atleast I probably won't get stuck with alot of mouths to feed.

Good luck