Which Morph?

[mak2266]

I have a 3 year old normal female. I would like to start breeding next season. What kind of Morph will produce an offspring morph the first time? I know the punnet square/ homozygous and heterozygous. But is a "super" different? Am I gonna have to bred back to offspring or buy 2 morphs.

[RandyRemington]

Any of the dominant type mutations would have the potential to produce mutant appearing offspring with your normal female. The supers are the homozygous form of the co-dominant mutations. Pastel is a co-dominant mutation so if you bought a pastel male your square would be like any het X normal (50% chance het babies) but because pastel is one of the dominant type (i.e. co-dominant) mutations the hets will be visible mutants like their dad. If you bought a super pastel then your square would be like any homozygous X normal producing 100% hets (i.e. 100% pastels).

[RebelYell83]

just to add a bit to what he said,using pastel as an example,as it has a visual super,breed a super to the normal,all will be pastels,however,breeding a pastel or spider,or pin or so on,,50% should be visuals,however,100% could be,,or none could be,,thats where the dice roll comes into play,,such is the same when using hets on visual reccesive,,i know a breeder who ran a pied to 2 hets,one came out all hets,one came out all pieds,,when playign with genetics,there is no sure bet,unless you use super to normal,or visual to visual

[Freakie_frog]

Odds are only a sure thing when dealing with supers. I bred a pastel to a normal last year got 8 eggs and got 8 normals. I bred a spider to a normal got 11 eggs and 8 spiders. I've know people that bred a bee to a normal got 5 eggs and 4 bee's thats a 1:4 for each egg.