Quote Originally Posted by TheReptileEnthusiast View Post
For example, you could pick up a male pastel that is 100% het clown and have 1 in 8 odds at pastel clowns and 1 in 4 odds at normal clowns with each egg. If you hit the male pastel clown, hold him back and the next year have 1 in 4 odds at pastel clowns and 1 in 2 odds at normal clowns when bred to just het clown girls.

Of course, if you have the coin you could just start with a visual pastel clown male and start making pastel clowns right away. The point is, that female you picked up will never become obsolete because she has the potential to make nice babies each season. Males on the other hand are usually replaced by one of thier offspring with more genes each year since they can breed multiple girls.

Have at it, soon you will be computing the possible outcomes of pairings in your sleep and planning 3-4 seasons in advance. Welcome to the clown club, it is one of the most exciting recessive genes to be working with because there are so many combos that haven't been done yet. I'll stop now, I could ramble on for pages about clowns.
I LOVE Clowns [and Pastels and all forms of the various "Bees"] so I think I will buy her.

I have no intentions of "inventing something amazing!"...I'd just enjoy breeding some of the things I personally like.

Even if nothing else pans out, I'll still have a nice, big sweet girl to cuddle.

Can't see the down side....

Thank you very much for explaining it to me in a way that I can understand.