Breeding is sometimes like gambling. You place your bets and hope for a lucky roll of the dice. After cleaning out the big girl cage, I reshuffled the deck and made some new mating decisions. Hopefully, informed decisions. The cards are played and now we have to wait.
In the Teddy catagory:
The two creams are staying together. That's Ash and Ori. Critter, the dilute agouti sow, has been bred to CaraMel, the satin gold boar with excellent results, however I want to try my red sow with Mel. She has such nice type and her last litter was so disappointing. So Salvia (red) is in with Mel (satin gold), and Critter (DA) is in with CocoPuff, a lilac boar. He's six months old, so this will be his first go.
In the nursery, Dreamsicle (Roan gold (pink eyes) delivered yesterday. Sadly only one baby made it. She's a nice little satin cream. Yay, a satin sow at last. I've gone years getting only the occasional satin and then always a boar.
In the Abyssinian catagory:
Carmelo (Roan cream) x Lilla (Lilac & REO). Both have good ridges and I'm hoping for a roan lilac & REO.
And the rest are combinations of gold x whites or creams x white. I did decide to breed my red boar to a younger red sow just because they are both really nice abbies.
And in the aby nursery, Ninata (cream) had four DEW babies about a week ago, two of each, all doing well. The sire is Snowy (DEW — what else?). Now Ninata ridges and rosettes are all over the place, but Snowy's are great and all of the babies take after dad! How excellent is that? I really need white abbies for both creams and silver agouti, so this was a bet that really paid off.
I'll try to add some photos soon. First though, I need to clean more cages.