Another busy & successful breeding season is over!  Overall seven clutches produced 52 eggs.  Many new variations, including four holdbacks, including a couple coveted targets five years in the making!  Check out the Zebra-Bee & Platty-Bee!   Enjoy 

Killerbee Het Axanthic X Axanthic Pastel

Results – 4 small healthy eggs, laid 4/1/15. Three eggs survived & I was fortunate to hatch my first Axanthic Killerbee and a pair of Super Pastel Hets.

Pastel Het Axanthic X Axanthic Pastel

Results –  8 healthy eggs laid on 3/03/15.  All 8 hatched on 5/1/15.   Four-year project, working with the Axanthic (recessive) gene;  happy with the outcome, producing a pair of Axanthic Pins & a nice looking Super Pastel.

(1.1 Axanthic Pin, 0.1 Pin, 0.2 Lemon-Blast, 1.0 Killer-Blast, 0.1 Axanthic Super Pastel & 0.1 Axanthic Pastel)

Butter Daddy #1 X Butterbee

Eight (8) healthy eggs laid on 4/19/15.  All eight hatched on 06/16/15.  Once again paired one of my Butter-Daddy girls with the Butterbee to see if I could produce a “Platty Bee”, and looks like this year it worked!  Very cool clutch.

Butterpin X Calico Pastel

Large clutch, eleven (11) healthy eggs dropped on 4/4/15.    
Hatched 10 babies hatched on 6/01/15.  We made lots of crayons!  Hit what appears to be four triples, not sure about a quad?  Hard to tell at this stage, need a couple sheds.  Dad’s high-whites carried over …

(1.2 Butter-Calico-Pin, 0.1 Butter-Calico-Pastel, 1.1 ButterPin, 1.1 Calico-Pastel & 1.1 Pinstripe)

Pinstripe X Butterbee

Huge clutch, she dropped 14 healthy eggs on  04/26/15
All 14 hatched 06/25/15.  First time pairing, mom was massive at 4400gms & dumped a huge clutch.  Produced 14 healthy animals, including a pair of Pinstripe “twins”.  But amazingly with the odds in my favor, did not get a single 3-gene Butter-spinner.

1.0 Butterbee, 1.1 Butterpin, 2.2 Spinner, 2.1 Spider 
& 2.2 Pinstripe

Firebee X Blackhead

Firebee dropped four healthy eggs on 6/19 which hated on 8/8.  Hatched three great looking animals but missed on the quad BH-F’Bee.  

(0.2 Firebee & 1.0 Blackhead)

Calico X Blackhead

Calico dropped five healthy eggs on 5/17 which hatched on 7/16.  We missed on the Calico-Blackhead but made a nice Blackhead female and couple cool Calico’s.