Hey, thanks for taking the time to answer!

I'm hoping my two disinterested males will grow out of it for this coming winter. As you say, project goals made things more complicated for me! My male that always wants to breed is a Pewter, but I really want to move forward with projects involving other genes instead. In fact, I'd rather just go without breeding than produce a clutch for the sake of it.

It's interesting what you say about females at 2 yrs of age... Some people swear to me that all their males breed at 500g and all their females at 1500 without fail - I suspect they are exaggerating a tad!!

Recently someone even claimed they had an 1100g female go one to lay 11 eggs... Again, made me slightly suspicious lol