if you cannot afford to spend more than 200 dollars per BP, is it worth it to start breeding now, or should you save up and wait until you have more money?


normal females can be of limited use when you have a really nice 3 gene or 4 gene male. when a double-gene male is the best you can afford, then normal females wont help you at all. i would stay away.

expect the whole thing to be very expensive. 200 dollars or less is the bottom segment of the market, and when you buy BPs from that bottom segment of the market and breed them together, then most of the hatchlings will also fall into that category, and the few hatchlings that are better because they beat the odds will most likely be holdbacks.

like, for example, when you breed het pied to het pied, you mostly get 66% possible het pieds that are worth less than the parents. and when you hit a visual pied, you are holding it back. with all the costs involved, hatchling rack and incubator and thermostats and food and supplies for the hatchlings that dont sell right away, it really would be a mistake to expect anything other than red numbers for the first few years.