What happened here?

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
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/gustavclutch.jpg

Gustav showing off for the camera.
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/pics/gustav.jpg

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

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.

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

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

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 :P)

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.

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

LUCKY DOG!!!!

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

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

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.