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    Re: Which line of pastel would you say he is?

    Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
    "Mutt" pastel.

    Unless you buy a selectively bred pastel from the person who produced the line, or someone who has been METICULOUS about preserving it, then it's 'just a pastel'.

    Lemon pastels were selectively bred by NERD for low blushing, and bright yellow color. Graziani bred his pastels for extreme blushing.
    Breed a lemon or Graziani pastel to a punch of normals or other morphs that don't possess those traits, and what you get are no longer lemon or Graziani pastels...they're 'just pastels'. People like to claim the name for the animals they produce in this fashion, but a good hard look will reveal the truth.

    Not that there's anything wrong with 'just pastels'--some of them can be very nice, they just haven't been selectively bred for any specific traits.
    The originals were bred for low blushing, but then he started to see some with higher blushing and started line breeding those, to discover the fader gene.

    My male is one generation removed from NERD and confirmed by Kevin. I checked with him that he did sell my male's sire to the breeder that I acquired him from. Kevin's also seen pictures of my male and his daughter and thinks that they both may be fader, and in his opinion are confirmed NERD lemons. More breeding will be required to draw any definitive conclusions.

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