Re: Sperm retention in bps
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Originally Posted by astaley
I am interested in this also for this reason... Say I breed Het x Het one year and am lucky enough to get a visual male. The following year I breed him back to mom and have a viable clutch. If there is the possibility of a 13 month sperm retention how would I know if the normal looking offspring are 100% Hets or 66%'ers. Is this a concern anyone else has? I would hate to sell something as 100% and not have it prove out.
then wouldnt the sperm have been used to creat the visual morph? i was more thinking say if you breed her to a lesser and she didnt become gravid but the next year you bred her to a pastel but lessers come out? or better yet a double clutch.
Re: Sperm retention in bps
I really think the odds of this actually happening are pretty low; just something I was pondering and wanted to get some opinions.
Re: Sperm retention in bps
A good friend of mine bred his Pastel to a female Het-Albino and the following year bred his Albino male to the Het-Female, when eggs hatched, he was surprised to see a Pastel along side Albinos and Hets.
As previously mentioned, those probabilities must be very low. I said to him, those Hets might not be hets after all, could as well been normal Pastel siblings. He is a very honest person and instead of selling the normal as Het Albinos, he kept the females and will be breeding them back to their father next year to find out. Will be interesting to see..
Could something like this account for many Hets out there that didn't pan out and were from an honest mistake. :confused:
Marc
Re: Sperm retention in bps
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Originally Posted by RegiusCo.com
Could something like this account for many Hets out there that didn't pan out and were from an honest mistake. :confused:
Marc
Well, if it were honest, they would have mentioned the fact that there was something up with the clutch initially, I would hope...
But I do understand your point.
