Instructional Breeding Project (Week 7 Info: MEGA!)

[Liriel Garnet]

(05-30-2013 10:24 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  The main difference between Liriel's suggestion of using a more dominant trait to pick up the recessive and expose it has the advantage of giving a provably pure trait (shown and hidden will be Poppy's recessive). The odds, per box, is 1-in-4.

Using a more recessive yields a hybrid (hiding the recessive) but has odds, per box, of 1-in-2.

So, it's a judgement call, get a pure trait, slower, or get a hybrid, sooner.

My bend is to go for the hybrid because, if you go for the discovery first, you minimize resource expenses (food, prims, your time) during the discovery phase.

I'm actually a fan of both techniques and use a combination myself when I can. If you have something even more recessive, by all means go for it. If you don't have anything more recessive on hand (and don't want to go buy it), or if, for example, you get a return of whatever the current known most-recessive is, then that's when I back down and use the more dominant in that slot to sibling breed.

I had a pair of whiskered offspring from a Christmas cat and I finally birthed the pair a three weeks ago (because I had my cattery size under control by then LOL) that were myst and plush because the most recessive whisker i had on a 9t cat at the time was curious and the Christmas starter had thrown curious with curious. They popped me a box showing wavy earlier tonight and the parents are now safely tucked away into my inventory on their way to kitty playground. The box I can just hold until I decide whether or not I want to breed that whisker into a line. In my case, I was forced to use this route simply by virtue of having nothing with which to test, and decided to do this rather than go purchase a cat with a more recessive whisker.

I probably misread what the original intentions were, because I thought she was talking about breeding the curious together to pull out the hidden whisker. That's why I spoke up to offer the advice that I did. I apologize for misunderstanding, but on the bright side, it's gotten some very good points raised for discussion in exploring the different techniques.