The Odds Gods are treating me well this year......

These guys literally just crawled out of the eggs...so I thought I'd snap a few pics. This was a 5 egg clutch from Pewter het Pied X Pastel het Pied.

2 Pewter Pieds
1 Pewter 66% het Pied
1 Sterling? 66% het Pied
1 Pastel 66% het Pied

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9984.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9985.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9987.jpg

And what looks like a very nice Striped Pewter pos. het Pied...
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9993.jpg

And don't know if this is a Sterling or Pewter just yet. It has some super nice blushing all over and seems to be a bit lighter than the Pewter.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9990.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9988.jpg

Thanks for looking.

Last one looks like a Sterling.

Great clutch!!!
Jim Smith

Amazing clutch. Big congrats

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Congrats! Those are awesome.

Just so odd how many Pied combos are Head Pattern only.


Beautiful no doubt, but still odd.

allways nice when the odds work out for you, nice snakes

great looking snakes.

Totally hot! Congrats on that awesome clutch. :headbang:

Thank you all. I'll get group shots after they shed.

Those are really sweet, gives us something to shoot for. Thanks for posting the pics.

Love them! Congrats! Do you think its the Cinny gene that effects the lack of pattern since pastel pieds usually have more?

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Originally Posted by jsmorphs2

Love them! Congrats! Do you think its the Cinny gene that effects the lack of pattern since pastel pieds usually have more?

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I absolutely do. The Cinny Pieds I've seen are also very high white, although I have seen one that did have a couple of large bullseye patterns other than the head. Same goes for the Panda Pied. Still a very worthwhile project.

Thanks for the compliments.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Osborne

I absolutely do. The Cinny Pieds I've seen are also very high white, although I have seen one that did have a couple of large bullseye patterns other than the head. Same goes for the Panda Pied. Still a very worthwhile project.

Thanks for the compliments.

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I was just thinking about this. The Panda Pied has body pattern, albeit much less than a normal pied, but the inclusion of the pastel gene makes it all go away and just leaves pattern on the head.

Interesting...

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Originally Posted by xdeus

I was just thinking about this. The Panda Pied has body pattern, albeit much less than a normal pied, but the inclusion of the pastel gene makes it all go away and just leaves pattern on the head.

Interesting...

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I'm not so sure the Pastel gene has anything to do with the minimal pattern on the Pieds. There are Pastel and Super Pastel Pieds with med to low white. I think it has more to do with the Cinny and Black Pastel genes. Of the Cinny Pieds, the Panda Pied, and the Pewter Pieds, all are very high white. The Panda even has a solid white head and only two patches of black on it's body.
http://www.killermorph.com/Portals/_...nda%20pied.jpg
I'll look for pics of Cinny Pieds as well. I'm not sure there are many of them around. Those that I have seen are very high white.

Here are the Pewter Pieds I produced this year.
These hatched last week.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9984.jpg
This one about a month ago.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DSCF9970.jpg

I believe the Cinny gene is responsible for the high white pattern in these.