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From what I've seen, people tend to start with a female morph they like (Say...a little pastel girl) then in a year - year and a half they get a morph male (usually of higher or equal quality) like a spider, or bumblebee / lesserbee / whateverbee. Then in another year they *should* be ready to breed.
Now...as for normals, it's the normal females that you see people breed with usually. Say you have a bumblebee boy, and a pastel girl. While your girl only has the potential of getting eggs from one guy (not going to even get into double sired wierdness here...) your guy can get it on with multiple girls. A way to increase production / profit is getting a couple solid big normal girls to hatch out some morphs from your special guy. (bee x normal = 25% normal, 25% spider, 25% pastel, 25% bee according to wobp wizard) You don't see male normals being bred to morph females usually, because it seems like a waste of potential. Advice I have read is always breed a genetically superior male, with genetically equal or lower females. Never the other way around. More bang for your buck (generally, with MOST morphs, females run more expensive. That paired with the 1 male can mate multiple females makes this piece of advice make sense to me)
That being said, I think starting slow would be of more benefit. (first year you are able to breed only doing one clutch) But that is just my opinion. Could you jump in head first and grab a breeder size female and yearling male and shoot for next year production? Sure. Is that a good idea for someone just starting out? Probably not. Getting those 3 years of husbandry under your belt, plus the initial knowledge of caring for a hatchling / raising to adult is knowledge you'll want before your up to you ears in hatchlings.
This is the route I'm taking for my eventual breeding. Everyone has their own ideas and opinions but I think going slow is going to benefit me and my snakes the most down the road. Once I have my first successful clutch, then I'll probably pick up a few adult normal girls for the next season as well as another morph project.
You mention pieds and albino's, just so you know, those are reccessive genes, which means both mom and dad need to carry the gene to make visual pieds / albino babies (albino x albino, albino x het albino, or het albino x het albino) With co-dom morphs (spiders, pastels) you only need one parent to have the genes to see visual babies.
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