ruppel pastel genetics

[PythonWallace]

Why do you want the male to always be the nicest?

Basically, males are, in general, less expensive than females, so it's more affordable to get a nicer male. Also, a male can breed with multiple females and produce multiple clutches each year, while a female can only lay one clutch a year, if that. So you want your most expensive purchase to be the best male you can afford, then you can add normal females, or cheaper morph females along the way, and the male will be there for all of them.

If you had $1,600 and you wanted to start breeding to produce bees and killer bees, you could get a male bee for $900, and say 2 nice pastel females and 2 normal females. Come breeding time, you end up with 24 eggs, and you should average 4 killer bees, 4 bumble bees, 8 pastels, 4 spiders and 4 normals.

Instead, say you get a female bee for $1,000, you can only get one pastel male to breed with her, so you will only get one clutch of say 6 eggs. You'd save about $400 at first, but you'd be lucky to even hatch a single killer bee each year, where in the above case you can count on hatching several each year, from the same initial investment.

The more expensive the male, the better the outcome. If you had $10k, you can get a male champagne and 5 normal females, and you would likely hatch about 15 champagnes the first breeding year. For the same price, you can get a female champagne and a normal male, and maybe hatch 3-4. It just usually makes more sense to spend your initial money on the best male you can afford.