Thoughts on a morph to pair with this boy

[piedlover79]

So I'm trying to prove that there is something going on with this pied beyond just pied. He's paring with a black pastel pied....but I'm giving some though to pairing him with a non pied morph to see if he can affect the pattern of another morph. I just can't decide what morph I should mix him with. Top of my current list is a mojave or a butter.

[Albert Clark]

I would pair him to a normal and then hold back a female or 2 and breed them back to him. You will have het pieds with the 2 females and then any other genetics should be apparent with that isolation.

[pastelballs]

I think the normal would help isolate the gene as well, breeding back to him. Other stuff might make it muddy or mask it, or mistake it for a different gene.

[Slim]

I would pair him to a normal and then hold back a female or 2 and breed them back to him.

I think the normal would help isolate the gene as well, breeding back to him.

Count me in as another vote for taking him to a Normal and holding back any 0.1 from the clutch.

[piedlover79]

I just don't want to end up with too many normals to find homes for. I was thinking of hedging my bet by breeding him to a morph and then likely ending up with some normals as well. But I do see your point. Hmmmm....I suppose then I could breed him to an albino to see if I can prove out his albino side, then I'd also have a better chance of showing anything off in any of the normals that comes out that and they'd all be double het albino pied.

[rlditmars]

I just don't want to end up with too many normals to find homes for. I was thinking of hedging my bet by breeding him to a morph and then likely ending up with some normals as well. But I do see your point. Hmmmm....I suppose then I could breed him to an albino to see if I can prove out his albino side, then I'd also have a better chance of showing anything off in any of the normals that comes out that and they'd all be double het albino pied.

Normals are very easy to get rid of but they go cheap. Het Pied adds a little value but is still under $100. If your not concerned with the money you can always just sell them as Normal and if someone later breeds to a Pied or het Pied, well then they hit the lottery. In the meantime you have an opportunity to prove or disprove your hunch on another gene being present.

It won't be the first time that a recessive gene was sold as a Normal. My understanding is somewhere out there in the world are a few het Sunsets that were sold as Normals. Good luck.