(raises hand) Apologies in advance for such a long post:
I am that friend. I did not want to share and potentially upset anyone who feels unlucky but Kayla convinced me I should share this information with the community.
Fetti breeding is incredibly challenging. We all know this. Cats will always be cats and sometimes their little AI's just say, "No!" I've had fettis that absolutely refuse to give their fetti fur, hidden or shown, and then I've had others that are magnificent, including this one.
Starter male produced 14 boxes. To clarify, there were actually 3 different moms to his kittens. 2 were BlueBerry full sisters, at least one hiding more recessive than Orange. Mating a BlueBerry daughter to him pulled their shared hidden PlumBerry.
Out of his 14 boxes; 2 Gen furs, 6 normal furs more recessive than Gen, 2 CocoaBerries, 3 BlueBerries, 1 PlumBerry; for a total of 6 fetti furs. He gave 5 fetti girls and 1 fetti boy and I traded a Blue h. Plum girl to Kayla.
These kitties are amazing, IMHO, and I do not think a few stubborn cats should drive the fetti market down so, or the wish to breed them. Yes, if you are breeding purely for profit, maybe fettis aren't the right cats for you. My starter above hid Butterscotch whiskers which was quite lovely to see and relatively "new" at the time, but maybe you won't get a new gene from them. I breed fettis for the love of breeding such a challenging kitty and the oohs and ahhs when they decide to give me exactly what I want. I hope you all will too.
(12-07-2016 07:58 PM)Kayla Woodrunner Wrote: I have a friend show said she got 6 confs out of her pair of confs. She is didn't want to post on the forum. But in the interest in being fair to the confetti cats, I am throwing her stats out there. There are always outliers in any random grouping.