Unless you have an exceptional looking dinker animal I think it would be wise to at least breed to see if it's inheritable. And if so breed again to try for the homozygous form of the gene. But I wouldn't chase dinkers that could be mistaken for normals.
That's how you end up down the rabbit hole because then you start wanting to succumb to the "Yeah but maybe it reacts with _this_ gene the way _that_ gene does." Nobody wants to feel like they wasted their time, so they're more likely to waste _more_ time, to try to make up for it. The only way I'd bother breeding a dinker is if it was a female that I was adding to expand production, anyway (not a likely scenario for me at this point). Then it would be going with a powerhouse male and whatever happens, happens. There are already so many Normals being given away free, just to get them gone, in this trade. I've intentionally insulated myself from having a bunch of Normals around, to have to find homes for. Adding a Dinker project would screw that all up (because 99.99% of them turn out to just be Normals).
Too much spectrum. Just look at all the normals on mm. A new gene is every breeder's dream. Few of us will ever get there. Better to try and work a new stack that's never been done before
Letterkenney taught me to never play Dinker Ball.
Unless you have an exceptional looking dinker animal I think it would be wise to at least breed to see if it's inheritable. And if so breed again to try for the homozygous form of the gene. But I wouldn't chase dinkers that could be mistaken for normals.
That's how you end up down the rabbit hole because then you start wanting to succumb to the "Yeah but maybe it reacts with _this_ gene the way _that_ gene does." Nobody wants to feel like they wasted their time, so they're more likely to waste _more_ time, to try to make up for it. The only way I'd bother breeding a dinker is if it was a female that I was adding to expand production, anyway (not a likely scenario for me at this point). Then it would be going with a powerhouse male and whatever happens, happens.
There are already so many Normals being given away free, just to get them gone, in this trade. I've intentionally insulated myself from having a bunch of Normals around, to have to find homes for. Adding a Dinker project would screw that all up (because 99.99% of them turn out to just be Normals).
Thats a beautiful snake
Thank you so much! His first clutch is due to hatch in about a month!
Too much spectrum. Just look at all the normals on mm. A new gene is every breeder's dream. Few of us will ever get there. Better to try and work a new stack that's never been done before