Breeding Questions

[tonkatoyman]

According to my scale, My female is 1332 grams(2lb. 11oz. - converted) this is having eaten 5 days ago 2 F/T sm. rats. Is she big enough to breed? I want to pair her with my 16 month old 600 gram mojave or my possible het pied boy and then hold back any girls that show tail markers and breed back to dad. To that end I have 2 questions, is my mojave boy old enough/big enough to breed? And am I correct in assuming that If my poss. het pied boy is in fact a het pied, then statistically when bred to my normal female the babies would be 50% normal and 50% het pied? This is my first attempt at breeding, before jumping in with both feet and investing in some more of the higher end morphs.
Thanks,
Mike Kelly

The answer to question 1 is, he is old enough and it will not hurt him to try.
As to question #2 If the male is in fact het pied, each egg has a 50/50 chance of picking up the pied gene. That does not guarantee that half will be het pied it just means they each have a 50% chance.