Breeding For Something Other Than Color?

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Originally Posted by Productmur

If I bred for size, it'd be the other way around, for dwarfism. I think a mini ball would be adorable. :3 But it would take quite some time to establish a miniature population with selective breeding (instead of a dwarfism gene).

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With you all the way. BPs are adorable in their own right. But little teeny "mini-balls"??? O.MG. i would looove that! I think tiny balls would be soooo darn cute!
*(wonders if anyone on the forum has some very tiny healthy, but undersized balls?)

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Well, we are pretty sure that size is a polygenetic trait and doesnt function like normal mendelians we are familiar with in the BP world. So the subsaharan or Voltas will take many years to increase morphs sizes. For instance we imported a gravid sub saharan girl which had 11 eggs. Those hatchlings when bred to captive stock (coral glow) should produce animals that are considered 50% subsaharan/volta. You would then have to re-breed back these animals with the orginal normal girl to end up with 75% Voltas that have a morph such as coral glow. This is how retics work and we don't have any evidence that the large trait in BPs works in basic mendelian fashion.

So basically it would all be selective breeding. Problem with this is that there isnt a huge demand for larger BPs and there is a huge demand for the hottest new morph. Now yeah people would like a 8ft Super GHI or something because it produces more eggs but more then likely by the time you get a Super GHI 75% Volta the GHI gene will be relatively cheap.

The dwarfs and superdwarf for retics took off readily because there is a huge demand for smaller retics but they still faced all the non-belief that dwarfs even existed in the first place as many people are still skeptical of Voltas. Once the dwarf retics were established many people now prefer them and only breed SDs. For instance I never plan to own a mainland animal at all, I just plan on working morphs into the Dwarfs and SDs.