Quote Originally Posted by elevatethis
I like the 3rd winter rule. Would you rather get 4-5 small eggs from a 1400 gram female or 10-11 huge eggs from a 2500 gram girl? I'll take the latter....
Hrm, I don't follow this reasoning


Lets say the egg hatched in July of 03, in September of 05 She is 2 years, 2 months old, weighs 1400 grams, and you breed her. 4-5 eggs

In September of 06 she weighs 2300 grams and lays 9 good sized eggs...

So you could have waited until September of 06, and gotten 10 eggs? But you would have missed out on the previous season where she was of decent size, and layed an ok first clutch.


If you are just comparing the number of eggs 14 eggs is more than 10

I do agree that you should make sure they are the right size and old enough to breed though. And at 1400 grams she might not even breed at 2 yrs 2 months and you have to wait another year.


I guess for people who have 10 females and bought them for breeding, they may be looking for the earliest safest time to breed them, as even if they only get 4 small eggs, if one is a male, depending on your project you could have just saved a whole year.