Quote Originally Posted by Gloryhound View Post
Since everything you are talking about is a co-dom or dom trait cycle them all through her. Its not like if you get a mojave you won't know who the father is! Also you will not be wondering if any normals are carriers of any traits. (Let me state I am not sure about the Joliff Tiger, but I believe it is a dom.) Also our biggest problem is getting the boys going. Right now we have our biggest girl paired up with a double morph that is genetic dark morph and co-dom banded. He is a proven breeder and they locked up within the first 3 hours and have now beein locked for 24 hours. The other one we are trying is our Graziani pastel male who is also het for Albino with another of our big girls. He has the idea, but just can not seem to get his tail under her. He has his body sideways and it looks like he is trying to push it under, but no luck during the first 24 hours. The last pair or should I say trio we are trying is a Male cinny with our proven female, nothing appears to be going on here other than her laying on top of him. We are going to rotate her with the cinny and our mojave and hope one or both of the guys do something. We figure if we get mojo babies we know who the father is. If we get cinny babies we know who the father is. If we get normals who cares who the father is cause they are still normal!

You know I'm not a big fan of this method for one major reason.

First Robin I think a Tiger or Winston would be hot!, Now I think we have starting see some lower quality offspring because people that are just getting started are not paying as much attention to how the pair could possibly complement or work against each other as they could. I feel like people are just in such a hurry to produce anything that the over look the part that is the most fun. Just throwing two animals together and hope the offspring look good isn't my idea of selective breeding. However finding animals that have traits that would compliment each other and pairing them up is to me a better way to go about it. If its no big deal what the offspring look like so be it, but I for one want to produce the best offspring I can so I look for animals that will complement each other. Selective breeding is the future and of this market when pastel are 125.00 across the board the way to stand out isn't by lowering prices its by producing the best quality animals you can. Look at Albey, His Mojaves are second to none, Adam produces the best Cinni's I've ever seen, Tim with his Hypos and Axanthics.
These are people we need to take example from.

Just my two cents.