What is this?

This was from a male pied who out of 14 babies has never produced anything abnormal. and a supposedly normal female axanthic. only one surviving egg out of 4 boobs.

http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/001.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/002.jpg
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/005.jpg

Some nice het pied markers
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/006.jpg

DAD
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/007.jpg

MOM
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/008.jpg

Mom with another axanthic for comparison
http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/z...0morph/009.jpg

Has the female been bred before?
Maybe you have some sperm retention with the female making the baby a pastel het ax...:confusd:

Whoa, that is a crazy outcome, maybe some hidden gene, but I'm probably wrong, someone with better knowledge will chime in soon!

bought the female as a baby, first time breeder. and look at the het pied markers, this male always throws killer markers like that with his babies

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Originally Posted by hotrod5603

bought the female as a baby, first time breeder. and look at the het pied markers, this male always throws killer markers like that with his babies

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I don't trust pied markers enough to go off of that alone, our black pastel female is not a het but throws black pastels with pied like markers.
You've ruled out sperm retention obviously since she was a virgin.
Looks pastel like, i'm stumped too, lol, good luck figuring it out :gj:

Looks pastel-ish to me too

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Seeing as she was a virgin, I don't know what to tell you... :frustrate :eyepoppin

Looks underdeveloped. How much does the lil worm weigh? I vote that the color hasn't developed.

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Originally Posted by h00blah

Looks underdeveloped. How much does the lil worm weigh? I vote that the color hasn't developed.

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28 grams out of a boob egg. it was a small egg but the little guy hatched right on schedule

Probably just not all the way colored in, yet.

What line of Axanthic is that?

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Originally Posted by hotrod5603

28 grams out of a boob egg. it was a small egg but the little guy hatched right on schedule

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I would say egg stress caused that look.. I've seen some crazy looking stuff pop out of boob and stressed egg's it'll keep the crazy color but I doubt it's genetic.

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Originally Posted by ClarkT

Probably just not all the way colored in, yet.

What line of Axanthic is that?

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VPI axanthic

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Originally Posted by h00blah

Looks underdeveloped. How much does the lil worm weigh? I vote that the color hasn't developed.

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I have to agree with this. It may have been an incubation problem, or the fact that it was a boob egg and something was developmentally "off" from the start.

I hatched one sort of like that once that they used to call "classic jungle" and attributed it to egg stress. Certainly try it out just in case but it might not be genetic.