Shannon, I think most everyone "understands" the value of outcrossing, it's easy to point a finger, but sometimes littermate or back to parent breedings are a nessesarry evil to get recessive genes going or keep them going in a collection. That said, outcrossing does have long term value and I think at least 90% of my breedings this year are unrelated outcrossing pairs even my red-sided snow is being outcrossed to a local Iowan LTC, however I don't have a lot of options if I want to keep the silver easterns going and a morph that cool is worth it, eventually of course outcrossing silver stuff will be on the menu, in fact I may be doing that this year but if I were to do that I would not tell anyone what the pairings were, that would be top secret of course