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    Need help selecting which girl to holdback

    Both super pastels, but which one is the nicer of the two?
    Girl #1


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    Balls:
    0.1 '?? Normal
    0.1 '10 Pastel
    0.1 '10 Yellowbelly het Genetic Stripe
    1.0 '11 Lesser
    1.0 '09 Lesser
    1.0 '11 Fire
    1.0 '07 Spider
    1.0 '11 Black Pastel

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    I vote number 2. She caught my eye better than the first. But honestly there is no bad choice with those two. Both are beautys.
    1.0 Mojave
    0.1 Pastel
    1.0 Bumble Belly

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    They both look good to me. I'd hold back whichever one has the better temperament and appetite.

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    its hair splitting really, they both look real nice, there is no obvious difference.

    so i say: make it depend on weight gain / feeding response.
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    Re: Need help selecting which girl to holdback

    They both are inquisitive and excellent feeders. So this decision is a hard one. I am holding back their killerspinner sister and can't decide if I should hold back both or one or just the killerspinner. This is my 1st clutch I've hatched out with more than single gene hatchlings so I'm having a hard time deciding. I have a few more clutches waiting to drop from:
    0.1 norm x spinnerblast
    0.1 norm x spinnerblast
    0.1 import(pos vanilla) x spinnerblast
    0.1 mojave x pastel butter
    So I don't have another chance this year to hatch out any more super pastels.
    Current collection is:

    Adults
    0.1 Normal (gravid)
    0.1 Normal (late season layer)
    0.1 Mojave (gravid)
    0.1 Import (building)
    0.1 Pastel (mom of these girls)
    0.1 Pastel pos granite (will make weight this fall)
    0.1 Chocolate (will make weight this fall)
    1.0 Spinnerblast

    Sub adults
    0.1 Lesser (pos het pied)
    Hatchlings
    0.1 Killerspinner

    So would it be wise to holdback the supers at all if I already have a quad gene girl holdback? I don't want to swamp myself in holdbacks, but I do want to continue to let my collection grow with girls who will eventually give me more morph potential.

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    0.1 '10 Pastel
    0.1 '10 Yellowbelly het Genetic Stripe
    1.0 '11 Lesser
    1.0 '09 Lesser
    1.0 '11 Fire
    1.0 '07 Spider
    1.0 '11 Black Pastel

    1.0 '81 Husband
    2.0 '03/'10 Offspring
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    Re: Need help selecting which girl to holdback

    I second that. They are both amazing and both caught my eye.

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    0.1 Spider
    0.1 Cinnamon
    1.0 Mojave
    1.0 Butter Pastel het OG
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    I like the blushing and pattern details better on #2, but I don't think there is a bad choice with these two.
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    when i look at the normal females and single-gene females you have, i think you may want to hold back both, in order to slowly transition away from normals and single-gene females as the holdbacks start producing eggs.

    but maybe you want to transition slower and dont want to hold back too many each year. also you have good chances at producing more double-genes.
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    Evolution is a fact, evolutionary theory explains why it happens and provides four different lines of evidence that coalesce to show that evolution is a fact. If you disagree, send me a PM.
    One third of the global economy relies on technology that is based on quantum mechanics, especially quantum electrodynamics (electron-photon or electron-electron interactions). If you disagree, send me a PM.
    Time Dilation is real, it is so real that all clocks if they are precise enough can measure it, and GPS could not possibly work without it.
    If you disagree, send me a PM.

    The 4 philosophically most important aspects of modern science are: Evolutionary theory, Cosmology, Quantum mechanics, and Einsteins theory of general relativity. Understand these to get a grip of reality.

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    Super Pastels = no Normals. I'd keep both. The few hundred you will get selling one, you will make up in not producing any Normals your first breeding season.

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    Keep both! They are both very nice

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