I'm curious, I've only ever seen you post sandblast pewters and pewter combos ... Have you gotten the effect at all on a pastel or cinny by itself, without the 2nd gene?
Not yet. The only reason is the first year we produced anything like them was 2010. We figured it was a fluke at the time, or it was the Pied gene at work. Last year we produced a few more...not a fluke. This year, three separate clutches.
This winter I'm going to start cross breeding with some of my other girls to try replicating it in other morphs. It's definitely genetic and I believe it is recessive in nature given the outcome we've had. The main reason we haven't seen it in our other morphs is because our focus was initially on the pewter pieds and trying to prove thing out.
The worst thing about this season has been the high male to female ratio. I may just have to keep all of the girls I have left. We sold one of the first back in 2010 and we have regretted it since.lol.
