First experience breeding

[Solarsoldier001]

Now that I have gone through the first year of breeding. We have started up our second year. Hope to have more clutches and with that make less mistakes.

Probably of all the things we faced this past breeding season. The first hardest thing we had to go through was the massive under bite clutch we had. And the decisions we had to do to be the most humane outcome. It's something we never thought would happen on our first breeding experience. It was the hardest of all things we had to do. Hopefully we never have to endure that kind of pain again.

The second hardest thing (for me at least) is handing these adorable little ones over to someone else .

Come one how do you sell these sweet faces.



But we did.

Out of all the babies we had. We had 7 clutches. Over 40 babies. We kept 7 of the babies.

And only now only have 7 left to sell.

It's exciting that we have created such lovely babies and now have others enjoying our children XD.

I'm excited for 2015 and what it has to offer. Hopefully more joys then sorrows.

How about y'all? How was your 2014? What do y'all expect for 2015?


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[jesst]

This is our first season breeding but I am already concerned that I won't want to get rid of any of the babies. We are expecting at least 4 more clutches with one in the incubator at day 31.
Congrats on this seasone and hopefully everything works out 😀

[Daigga]

Do you know what happened to cause the under bites? I'm waiting on my big girl to finish cooking my first ever clutch, and I want to be prepared when she finally lays.

For this particular clutch I think I'll be able to talk myself out of keeping too many, (normal x lesser bee), though If I happen to hatch out a lesser bee female I won't be able to say no to myself (or maybe a nice lesser... or spider...). There are future clutches I have planned that I'll have a much harder time letting go of, particularly my mojave x lesser bee (can you keep too many BEL's?), and my bumblebee x calico pastel (calico killer bee? Keep? Sell? KEEP?). My bumblebee and my mojave will both be up to breeding size at the same time, so I'm just going to be all over the place when they go. Not until late next year at the earliest, but still...

[Solarsoldier001]

Do you know what happened to cause the under bites? I'm waiting on my big girl to finish cooking my first ever clutch, and I want to be prepared when she finally lays.

For this particular clutch I think I'll be able to talk myself out of keeping too many, (normal x lesser bee), though If I happen to hatch out a lesser bee female I won't be able to say no to myself (or maybe a nice lesser... or spider...). There are future clutches I have planned that I'll have a much harder time letting go of, particularly my mojave x lesser bee (can you keep too many BEL's?), and my bumblebee x calico pastel (calico killer bee? Keep? Sell? KEEP?). My bumblebee and my mojave will both be up to breeding size at the same time, so I'm just going to be all over the place when they go. Not until late next year at the earliest, but still...

The under bite came from a yellowbelly 100% het albino to albino female. We know that the yellowbelly male had not issues with another clutch. Those babies came out perfectly healthy. So we either think the pairing was a bad pairing or the albino girl is just not a good girl to breed. The incubator never lost electricity and was a constant temp at all time for all the seven clutches we had. The only clutch that turned out awful was the albinos females clutch


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