Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog View Post
I can tell you from experience that learning and reading is fantastic. Props on wanting to know the ins and outs of how to breed. It make your first breeding season so exciting to see your first lock, first OVY, and first eggs then first babies.

Everyone has given you some great info so far..my only word to you is be ready for things to change, and don't get frustrated when things start going differently than planned.

Have fun and take notes..
There is no substitute for DOING -- as it cements it for you as REAL. Like the surgeon creed goes: "See one, do one, teach one". Reading EVERYTHING MANY times WILL help it all sink in. Like you, I would read stuff and think I understood the sequence of things -- only to back the next day and be confused. If you have never breed ANY animals before (I had not) it will seem very foreign for a while.

After you start pairing, seeing locks and ovulations, begin setting up eggs etc.... you will become more comfortable. If you do it enough it will become "no big deal" and second nature for the most part.

I would spend some money and get a substantial incubator if it were me. I have made a couple of my own since buying my first -- a Good Apple I have been very happy with it. I slept well when my eggs e=were cooking. I know I would have NEVER rested had I been using any kind of hovabator. I trust that many have been successful with them -- just not for me. Good Luck! Breeding is not that hard -- and it does get easier over time.