planning for gouldian splits or not
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:57 pm
I'm doing some pair planning and wanted the opinions of the experts.
Is it better to breed for pure color or a split where the visual color is what I want. Example BH vs BH/YH, or RH vs RH/BH.
What I'm afraid of is the splits of the offsprings making it harder to plan and predict the next generation.
I already ran into the "surprise" of the splits where I got an OH from a pair of what I "thought" were RH but which were RH/OH. It was a nice surprise, but a surprise that I had not planned for. And now it is a "now what do I do with him" situation, since I am not planning to breed for OH (at least not yet).
Is it better to breed for pure color or a split where the visual color is what I want. Example BH vs BH/YH, or RH vs RH/BH.
What I'm afraid of is the splits of the offsprings making it harder to plan and predict the next generation.
I already ran into the "surprise" of the splits where I got an OH from a pair of what I "thought" were RH but which were RH/OH. It was a nice surprise, but a surprise that I had not planned for. And now it is a "now what do I do with him" situation, since I am not planning to breed for OH (at least not yet).