However right you wish to be,
Is perfectly fine with me, you see.
My point is: that of the three,
Any mix would be a boon to breed.
I'm a poet
And don't know it,
Say a rhyme
Every time.
Nevertheless, I don't pray to Murphy. Never have. Never will.
:crazy02:
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I breed for fun, not profit. So it matters little to me what shows up. I usually end up giving away the good stuff anyway.
For example: Two years ago, I bred together a triple het pair (amel, lavender, and motley) in the hopes to get a motley-lavender. I got my motley-lavender--a striped-motley-lavender, in fact--on the first breeding. Unfortunately, he lasted seven months before I found him dead in his box. I got one extra lavender, so I kept that, and one opal, which I gave away to Carol, because I thought she would appreciate having an opal more than I would.
The next year, I got three! Count 'em, three motley-lavenders. I didn't get any opals, nor motley-opals, but I did get an extra lavender female to go with the male from the year before. Now, I have a 1.1 pair of lavenders and a 1.1 pair of motley-lavenders. Bull's Eye!
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Now. I don't want it to sound like I'm being defensive, so let me write some gloom-n-doom, so the nay sayer's can be happy. I got a triple het male from a large, reputable breeder who swore it was a normal, het for ghost, and lavender. After three years of breeding with a silver queen, all I get is 50/50 normals and anerys. Obviously, he's not het for ghost. So, his he het for Lavender? Or am I just treading water? Who knows, until I have a lavender female freed up enough on which to waste some of his wiggle-tails.
Hold Up! Here's another one. I proved out a female, striped-motley-anery to be both a good producer and that she is het for amel. Yea!
So, I picked up a male, motley-striped-anery, het for amel, from another reputable breeder, so I could produce both striped and motley snows. After two years of breeding these two together--this year will be my third try--all I have been able to produce from them are dark black, hard-boiled eggs after a few weeks of incubation, even when she has double-clutched. Man, I wish I could make my females stop doing that. Anyway, It looks like my male may be shootin' blanks.
Or, how 'bout this one? I have a charcoal ghost female and a charcoal, zig-zag male with whom I've been trying to convince it would be a good idea to produce a clutch of eggs. Two years I've been trying to convince them. This will be my third year with them too. I proved her out two years straight with an anery male, before I got my charcoal male. Now, all she wants to do is demonstrate her ability to carry a fine string of eggs inside her for a couple of months before she re-absorbs them. Damned frustrating, that's what that is!
My point is: You got to be doing this for fun. Bending down and kissing Murphy's ass, because you "want" something is a waste of time. I say, "Go find a more worthy God's ass to kiss."
(Nothing personal, Menhir, I just dislike the superstitious belief in Murphy's Law.) :wavey:
