Interesting normal

[Sandy_01]

This is a normal, I know because I hatched it from a co-dom pairing. This clutch hatched out two normal, both look similar. They seem to have inherited pattern from the Dame (if pattern is genetic?). The Dame is my Graziani Pastel. Before this, if I had seen these normals for sale I may have thought that there was something else going on, maybe something recessive? Now I guess I know better. Hope you enjoy.

[SlitherinSisters]

The pattern looks like a cool normal pattern. Or am I missing something? All of my babies had patterns that were clearly effected by the sire or the dam.

[Bill T]

My normal female has a light pattern like that. You never know if they have something recessive till uve bred her a few times. Great looking normal tho

[Sandy_01]

The pattern looks like a cool normal pattern. Or am I missing something? All of my babies had patterns that were clearly effected by the sire or the dam.

That is kind of the point of my rambling. I have seen it stated that pattern is not genetic, but in this case it seems that the pattern was not linked to the morph. The only thing that throws me is the light spot on the top of the head, where in the world did that come from.

[Sandy_01]

My normal female has a light pattern like that. You never know if they have something recessive till uve bred her a few times. Great looking normal tho

Trust me on this one. I am 99.9 % sure that there is no recessive genetics at work here.

[Sandy_01]

OK, I just realized that yall have no clue why I am interested in the pattern of this animal, so a little back story is in order here. So take a look at this thread and it may make more sense. The very last post explains it all.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ntroducing-Tig

[koloo921]

I love the head blushing! Selective breeding will produce nice normals! Buy and keep the best looking examples of each morph! A friend of mine was selling normals at a show for $40 each! They were out of all codom stuff! By the time I walked around again all of his females were gone. The table next to him still was trying to get rid of his $20 imports.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I don't know who ever said pattern and color in normals isn't genetic but it most certainly can be. Doesn't mean they are morphs, but they can certainly add to, or take away from, the quality of morphs produced by them when paired to morphs.

People breed certain normals for lighter coloring and less or more pattern all the time. That's how all the different lines of pastels were created. By selective breeding of the best light colored normals with high blushing or reduced patterns to pastels.

Problem is, because pattern in normals IS often inheritable, if a great high quality morph is bred to a dark normal with none of the desired traits you'd want in the pattern or color of the possible morph offspring, you could end up creating lower grade versions of that morph if the normal used does pass on it's traits.

But yeah, that's a cool looking baby!

[EverEvolvingExotics]

I think that's the best thing about normals. They can vary so much within each other. You have a very nice creature.

[heathers*bps]

Very pretty normal indeed