male to female ratio

[bmalk89]

What is your guys opinion on how many males to females you should have when breeding. I am going to start stocking up for future projects and was wondering what you think.

oops, meant to put this in breeding!

[h00blah]

From what I gather, 1 male to 3-5 females is ideal. Unfortunately, you can't guarantee that the 1 male will be interested in all, or any, of the females. Some people have "backup" males lol.

[bmalk89]

ya i was thinking about 1:3 male to female. I am trying to start out slow and build my collection for breeding.

[joebad976]

It kind of depends on what you have in your collection. Recessive projects may bring your male to female ratio down a bit. I have a pair of het axanthics but I will only attempt to breed that pair to each other. I don't plan on producing a bunch of 50% possible hets by pairing the male or female to a non het. Hope this makes sense.

Typically, I think you will find most shoot for a 1:4 ratio with a backup or two.

[Annarose15]

I went as high as 1:6, but that was with a large, established breeder male that eats very well. The way I do my rotation works best with 1:5, but I have a few younger males that will only be breeding 2-4 this season due to their age and size.

[Mike41793]

I have 2.5 right now. But 2 of my females wont be able to breed bc theyre babies. Im gunna do:
Fire x Pastel
Cinny x Cinny
Fire, Cinny x Normal

I may try and flip them around if they dont seem to be showing interest but thats the plan for now.

[Blue Apple Herps]

It really depends on what you're doing. I used to have a cinnamon male and a mojave male I used for projects. Now I have a savannah male so went from 2 to 1 male.

But I needed both males for specific projects and they each bred 1 female. So there nothing wrong with 1:1 if it makes sense for your projects.

[4Ballz]

I'm sitting 5:5 atm. As I'm trying to build my collection up. I'm not even sure if my two recent females are indeed females. So who knows right now.

What's your plans/projects you are aiming for?

[bmalk89]

There are a lot of projects that I want to do and it changes everyday lol. But I have a male pinstripe at around 600 grams right now and I want to pick up some breeder size normal females right now just to see and make sure that I can do it. I want to maybe pick up a morph female as well. I kind of figured to start I should have a high female to male ratio so I can sell off more babies to put more money back into my collection and build it. Assuming things work out that way

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I like to keep it around 1.4 - 1.5