Thanks!
Nothing makes up the 'pixel' per se other than me calling it that (someone on here gave me that name, I first called it digital pied but I liked their name better and they said I could 'steal it'). The original breeder (Dan Wolfe) produced two of these oddly broken up pattern piebalds out of a double het for pied and albino. He called them 'gold dust' but that name has since been taken by another morph combo since he never worked to prove these guys out. I have no idea what happened to the female he produced. However this male was breed by Mike Russo last year and produced two more broken pattern pied babies...so something is going on here but no one has taken the time to really prove it out.
The project is mine now and I'm breeding him to a black pastel pied and if I get any black pastel pieds with this same broken pattern I will be a step closer to this being a new type of pied. If I can find a breeding size female of some other morph to mix this with to see if there is a pattern change with other morphs (I do know that if you breed him with a normal you get bright yellow reduced patterned het pieds, I found *one* of his daughters by that breeding, but I couldn't get a hold of the owner to see if they ever got any 'pixel' pieds out of her).
Basically this is a 'Dinker' pied project.
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