I've seen a couple breeders that seem to have upwards of 30 normals in their collection for the first couple years. To me it wouldn't really be productive unless they were imports and you were hoping to hit on an undiscovered gene. The only other thing I can think of is if they wanted to get a really top dollar male with several genes and breed it into several females to get a good range of morphs to start with. I could see that as a plausible start if you then incorporated some serious quality programs and continued to bring in new quality animals into the programs. I could also see using them if you were not already using top quality animals to get some reduced patterning into the mix or maybe some other unique things. I can't see any other possible reasons but like I said I have seen it happen. Just wondering if I'm missing something. Ethically I would be oppose to it myself just because of the high number of normals I would produce and I don't think I have enough of me to go around with 30 pet normals to look after for 40 years.