Hey everyone! It has been a while. That doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything in the suggie business though–quite the contrary. Since we began, we have already expanded our breeding program twice, have sold our first joeys, and have about 10 joeys currently in pouch! So yeah, we are staying busy.
However, we are expanding once more (the last time for a while–I think) by adding some different genetic lines to our breeding program. Any pair can produce standard grays; any pair with at least one mosaic (currently all our pairs) can produce varying degrees of mosaic offspring; any pair with a black face black beauty (4 of our pairs) can produce bfbb young; any pair with one White Face Blonde (1 of our pairs) can produce WFB offspring–these are all dominant traits. However, some traits are recessive and both parents have to carry the gene to produce offspring with that coloring. Currently we have one pair who can potentially produce leucistic or platinum joeys and cremino joeys. However, the chance is low since neither of them are visual leucistic/platinum or cremino.
This is where the expanding comes in…We are adding a leucistic/mosaic pair to our program who has been proven in producing leucistic and mosistic joeys. We are also adding a cremino pair and a mosaic/true platinum mosaic pair who is proven in producing cremino as well. We are excited to be expanding they types of joeys we can produce!
This should really be our last expansion for a while. We have rearranged our suggie room as much as we can to make it as efficient as possible. When all these new guys come, we will have 12 pairs, 3 trios and two holding cages for weaned joeys. Let’s see if I can remember everyone’s name…
–Tory and Pringle, Vanilli and Milli, Aries and Ariel, Rico and Cici, Skittles and Mindy, Doodle and Roxy, Oreo and Crumpet, Arty and Marta, Kuiu and Lulu, Tarzan and Uma, Zander and Quinn, Barney and Scout, Reggie Lily and Susie, Peanut Petunia and Violet, Maui Heihei and Keiki
whew…got em all. Excited to show them off when they come.
Megan