Breeding Normals..is it a bad thing?

[distaff]

Okay! So if I breed him later, and he produces otherwise, we know he's not silver streak?

If you bought him as a pet, how much do you really care?

If I were purchasing an animal for a breeding project, I'd get one from a breeder I trusted. I wouldn't be proving out anything, I'd be following a known genetic recipe that has an expected probability of producing the desired morph.

The thing is, breeding gets expensive, and many of those costs will be fixed at a certain baseline no matter what genetics the parents have. Those costs will only go up, if you can't readily sell the babies. Better to have a sound plan to earn your money back in sales of animals that are in demand.