I'd like to ask your advice on what to do next with a starter that finally showed me a recessive whisker color hiding. This starter was unpacked after the Halloween 2014 kittens came out (I got his box in the summer but it was never rezzed until his unpack day, so he should have all the halloween trait potentials).
It was the last of his traits to be identified, but since he came out with Latte, I think I have to test him for possible flame whisker color (*gasp!*).
As I see it, the options are:
(1) unpack the Latte-whiskered kitten and breed it to Dad (backbreed, with 1/4 chances of getting the hidden whisker color )
(2) unpack the latte-whiskered kitten and breed it to a white-whiskered sibling from the same Dad (sibling breed, with 1/4 chances of getting the hidden whisker from both at the same time, but maybe a better chance of having a fur/eye)
(3) buy a flame-whiskered kitty and breed it to the latte-whiskered one, and/or to Dad (expensive option!! but yummm)
(4) unpack the best non-silver whiskered-kittens from Dad and start manufacturing Blue Tabbies in hope that some of them will have good whisker colors
Here's the starter with his discovered traits and the latte-whiskered kitten:
http://gyazo.com/915787700a9b76bad39c0f928ac897e6
and here are his babies:
http://gyazo.com/e7a7b13805bdfd47f5b701385ed43b4e
all of the Moms are pretty good.
So I'm wondering: what would you as breeder do? Can you think of options other than the 4 i listed above?
What would you consider the most economical way to go?
The most satisfying way ? (I know, I'd like to be able to use either Latte or Flame whiskers that originated in my very own starter ... for satisfaction's sake.)
and The Way to the Best Outcome Kitty? (e.g., breed the latte-whiskered kitty to the world's finest Kittycat, then take siblings and hopefully come out with flame-or-better-whiskered world's finest kittycats?)
(I'm sorry I can't figure out how to show the pedigree images! They are on Gyazo though.)
Thanks in advance for your advice
what next? recessive whisker color from starter
