Pumpkin Pieds! (for realz.. )

The story:

Last year I hatched 1.0 Yellowbelly Piebald that I called the Pumpkin Pied. About a month after that, a friend in Florida hatched three YB Pieds that looked better than a normal pied, but nothing like the one I hatched! Even the yb het sibs looked different than the ones from my clutch.

So I began to think that there may have been a third trait at work in my original Pumpkin Pied that was giving it that extra boost in orange and reducing the black outlining in the pattern

Repeating the exact same pairing this season, I believe that I've proved my theory! For now I'm called the third trait "Gene X"

1.0 YB Pied (looks like the others produced last season)
http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/imag.../ybpied_01.jpg

0.1 Pumpkin Pied! (YB + Piebald + "Gene X")
http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/imag...kinpied_01.jpg

Pair Pic
http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/imag...09/0916_02.jpg

Clutch Pic
http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/imag...09/0916_01.jpg


I'm thrilled with them... Thoughts? Justin

I like how it brings out the Orange, Congrats
Jonas

Wow! Those are fantastic, Justin! Can't wait to see what future breedings bring!

Thats interesting.

Any pictures of Non Pied Gene X babies?

The second pied (the one w/ the gene X) looks like a superstripe pied! :) Loving that combo! Congrats!

That is soo cool!

I wonder if this "X gene" has any connection to the graphite ivory, or ultra Ivory that Ben Siegel produced, perhaps they are the result of a pair breeding YB with the X gened. Just a thought.

Congrats on the sweet clutch and proving out your theory!

Thanks for the comments and I'm definitely interested in hearing all of your theories! I can put up pics of the non pied offspring from '08 & '09 soon.

That pumpkin pied is pretty freaking sweet looking.

Awesome hatchlings

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Originally Posted by jopay

the second pied (the one w/ the gene x) looks like a superstripe pied

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