This CH male has been bred twice.
The first time was with this female in 2010. Her on the eggs.
The 8 babies had some weird patterns, but nothing else of significant note.
To be honest I held back one female and sold the rest as normals thinking the project was going to be a silly recessive that wouldn't be worth anything.
The female I did hold back, unfortunately did not survive our move from Ohio to Michigan. We suspect the sun was hitting her cage during the 6 hour trip through some gap in the cover.
That resulted in me restarting the project this year, and I bred him to this female.
The results were much more pronounced and even color was involved. So far only 5 of the 10 eggs are out and all of them have a weird color and pattern.
a couple beside a normal (actually Het Caramel PH Orange Ghost, but as close to a baby normal as I currently have.)
Any ideas as to what is going on? It looks like the pattern is either dominate or co-dom, but the color didn't come out until the second breeding making me wonder if the female in the second breeding could be het for something or I just totally skipped over the color in the first breeding by accident and it is co-dom or dom. Both cases make me wonder if it is a double gene or a single gene that affects color and pattern.
Opinions welcome.
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