Quote Originally Posted by Evilme5229 View Post
A thing to remember when your breeding recessive genes that my distributor tipped me out on. Any recessive morph that you breed to a normal, should be strictly with that normal. The reason being, that the normal (if a female) can retain the sperm for the next year.

So for example. I am breeding my male ghost (recessive) to my normal female. I shouldnt breed her to any other male that I have because she can retain the sperm from the ghost if I try to breed her with my pewter the following year. Any normals that appear out of clutch when I breed her to my pewter might not be normals, but actually can be het for ghost. Its interesting.
Actually, it wouldn't be a big problem to do this. Sure, you might produce what you thought was a normal, but was actually het hypo, but who cares?

The bigger problem is if you do it in reverse order. If you breed the pewter to a normal the first year, and the next year breed that same normal female to a hypo. If she retained sperm from the pewter, you could produce normal offspring that were sired by the pewter and truly are normal and not het for anything, yet you think they were sired by the hypo and that they are 100% hets.