Fun with Breeding "Advice", "Tips", Tricks and Superstitions :)

[Sara Franco]

(09-24-2012 09:34 AM)Liriel Garnet Wrote:  First, let me state that I don't believe that there is any programming that affects the odds of a hidden trait showing up late, or a particular trait or fur passing more easily or with more difficulty. That would be a bad thing.

But yes, i have long runs of the same sex from a pair, or traits that do or don't pass. This is entirely normal and expected in a truly random situation. You're far more likely to get three girls, then a boy, then another girl, then two more boys, then whatever... than boy-girl-boy-girl. I currently have a starter that's thrown only their gen eye color for five boxes. I have another starter that keeps tossing her pink eyes (and i'd truly prefer she toss her genesis). And unfortunately both appear to be 6T starters (missing pupil size, eye shape *and* shade), as they've tossed neither in 5 boxes as well.

Frustrating? Yes, in some ways. I had a pair of 7T cats that tossed me four 9T boxes out of 10 together. I have another pair of 8T cats (both 9T capable) who have *yet* to toss me a 9T offspring in 8 boxes, mainly because the girl in 7 of the 8 boxes has tossed her shown big pupil. I have a whole breeding line that toss me mainly boys, another that tosses me mainly girls. I have a project with a friend that's *always* been boy-heavy, but the last two weeks, nearly every pair has given us girls. It's all luck and odds, sometimes they're in your favor, other times not.

Thanks Liriel for your reply

The part I mentioned about almost retired kitties breeding was just wondering but I don't find it bad if they do it, as long as it is the same for all breeders why would it be bad?

Anyway the second part was mainly my interest, the repetition of the same result, it is amazing how your pairs are different Liriel and yes it is luck and I had kitties that tend to pass the hidden fur or eyes more than the visible (and of course they like to do that when I want the visible trait ) and others do completely the opposite but I like to expect that when I get the same trait or a gender for many times in a row -say 3 times- that I'm getting the other the next time, that proves to be wrong many times of course but it is like Devil's "washed" lucky pants just a try to predict the result, never a try to set a rule.