What happened here?

[muddoc]

This year we bred our Cinnamon male to a Hypo female in hopes of producing a male Cinnamon Het Hypo, becasue I always thought the Hypo Cinnys were so cool looking, and would make for some awsome projects in the future. I started candling these eggs at day 40. Around day 45 I marked the eggs, with three of them being Cinnys and one being normal. This really got me excited about the clutch. One of the cinnys, I circled the "C" on the egg, because I knew for sure that it was a Cinny. So I knew I had at least one. Well, day 51 rolled around, and I couldn't take it any longer, sio I cut them.

The first egg I cut was marked "N", meaning normal. Sure enough, a Het Hypo in that egg. The next egg was marked as a Cinny, but not the special one. I cut it, and saw, WHAT, a Hypo in the egg. What just happened? The next egg I cut was marked Cinny, and after cutting, observed a nice looking Cinny in the egg. The last egg was the circled"C", which I knew for sure was a Cinny based on the blushing and pattern that I saw in the egg during candling. Low and Behold, that egg really contained a Hypo Cinnamon. Boy was I lucky. I was able to skip a complete generation on that project.

p.s. I am typing this on generator power, because when I tried to post earlier, we lost power from Hurricane Gustav. As a result of this clutch hatching when it did, we have since named the Hypo Cinnamon - Gustav.

Gustav ended up being a male, as did the Het Hypo and the Cinny Het. The Hypo is a female, which is nice, because she looks very different than any Butterscotches I have ever producd (the Hypo mom is a Butterscotch Hypo). Meet Gustav and his clutchmates.

The Clutch


Gustav showing off for the camera.


Thanks for looking, and allowing me to share our excitement,

[frankykeno]

So your Cinnamon male that sired this clutch was actually a Cinnamon Het Hypo......nice!!! Gustav is gorgeous and will now make the list of things I must one day produce myself LOL.

Hope you, Monica and the kids stay safe and dry. Hugs to all of you.

[4theSNAKElady]

Oh WOW! He's a fat little sausage too!

[Dave763]

Just a guess, maybe your male is het hypo? Either way congrats.

[blackcrystal22]

Wow Tim, lucky things like that are always a great surprise!

Good luck with that storm, I hope you get through it safely and dry. I wish you the best.

Edit: Quick question on genetics. With the Hypo and Cinny gene, why do you have to have a het Hypo Cinny to make a Hypo Cinny? Why is it that the morphs don't affect each other directly through a Hypo x Cinny cross? (normally )

[muddoc]

Thanks for all of the compliments and well wishes. So, far we have only lost power, but not cable yet.

Dave, yes, my original Cinnamon is obviously a Het Hypo, but we just learned that the lucky way.

[Freakie_frog]

Tim theres something wrong with that hypo.. I wouldn't mind if you just baged it up and sent it my say. .

LUCKY DOG!!!!

[BT41042]

WOW - That's hot brother...Y'all stay safe down there...

[PythonWallace]

Congrats Tim! That's awesome. Way to prove out the het hypo cinny and skip ahead with this project.

[FatBoy]

Best of luck with the storm, prayers are with you. Where did you get the cinny? There should have been some indication it was het hypo, unless a cinny was bred to a het hypo, thinking it was a normal, and it was off of that. Breeder may not have know mom was het hypo. That would produce 50%PH's. Your cinny proved out!! Wish I could get that lucky.