Re: Cinny, Spider, YB, Same Clutch 3 fathers....
Nice clutch!
I'm constantly surprised by people who don't realize that this is possible, but apparently it is a common misconception (so probably I'm the dumb one for still getting surprised by it). When I was a teenager, we had a female dog that accidentally got pregnant. We knew she had been bred by one of the neighborhood males. Turns out a couple of the puppies were probably his, but most of them looked almost exactly like a different neighborhood male. (Yes, we lived in an area/time where spaying/neutering was not considered as important as most people think it is today.) Talking to other kids about it, they couldn't believe it was possible that the puppies had different fathers.
1 baby comes from 1 egg and 1 sperm. So any 1 baby cannot have more than one father. But if there are 6 babies, each one of them came from its own egg and its own sperm, with the exception of identical twins. If sperm from more than one donor are present, a litter is quite likely to have some puppies (or whatever species you are talking about) from one father and some from another. This could even theoretically happen with human twins.
I think in BPs with their ability to retain sperm, this is even more likely to happen, because there is a much wider window for the female to have been bred by multiple males.
It is still exciting to see a mixed clutch. :gj:
Re: Cinny, Spider, YB, Same Clutch 3 fathers....
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PythonWallace
I know a guy who bought an adult female supposedly het albino that he bred with an albino. From that clutch he got an albino, mojave, pastels and hets. Damn retained sperm.
Ha! Well, it sounds like better than he could have hoped for. He proved out the het female, got the mojave and pastel genes for free, and got a step ahead on pastel albinos and mojave albinos, if he had any interest in producing those.
