12/27/11
(Hilarious movie, btw...lol)
In almost 90 days of my interactions with meeroos (took me a while to get interested but I got hooked when I was given my first one), I never came into the forums, and I don't want to monopolize, but recently, with the increase of knowledge I'm experiencing, there also comes an increase in questions and observations. I know that a lot of my questions have probably been posed in much earlier posts by others, but I am enjoying getting involved with the rest of you gamers and most of you are very helpful when it comes to my queries and notations. So until someone complains about my questions being nonsensical or long winded, I will keep asking and sharing because you are all a great group of people and I enjoy being here.
I wanted to share this with all of you to see if anyone has noticed the same thing.
For the most part, because of economics, I keep a high number of roos at the same stumps. Many of my grouped roos are compatible, but I avoid the tendency for them to "pit breed" by offsetting the matings of my matched pairs by a couple of days so one set comes into season while another pair that are compatible with the first are in the 30% to 40% range. It has worked fairly well, for the most part but lately I've started to notice that some of my pairs are slow to mate and some are even missing a season all together. Because they go back to 2-day waits when they miss, this causes a problem in the fact that it syncs them with the other pair that are compatible with them and as you can guess, they are mating with one of the other pair and messing with my matchings.
I was scratching my head trying to figure out why a particular pair of roos didn't mate during their normal cycle when I remembered something I had read by one of the members when they were explaining genetics and pit breeding. He/she had said that when you pit breed, the roos will more or less choose a mate to breed with. I took this to heart, and last night, when a pair of my roos would just not give me a nest, I decided to move the pair to a stump by themselves, and lo and behold, they delivered immediately.
I'm wondering if any of the rest of you have had problems with your meeroos not breeding when they should and I also wonder if it's because they are at a stump with another roo that they seem to "like" better.
Do you think there's anything to the thought that maybe it's a scenario like this:
Meeroo #1a - Aggressive male, season rise
paired with
Meeroo #1b - Shy female, season peak
and at the same stump with
Meeroo #2a - Mischievous male, 40%
paired with
Meeroo #2b - Aggressive female, 40%
where #1a is tending to ignore #1b because it is more compatible with #2b and is trying to "wait" for it to come into season...
I have separate breeding stumps set up, which is the most desirable condition, but, again, because of the cost and the number of meeroos I have, it's become necessary to let them breed at stumps with other roos present which is setting up a "pit" condition.
I'm just wondering if there could be anything to this or am I off trying to read more into this than is necessary.
(Maybe they're modest and too embarassed to do it in front of the other roos...ha,ha,ha)
Seriously, though... what do you think? Thanks for the input, all!