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Clutch #6 - MINE!!

Well maybe next season you will get your wish. The sire is really different so good chances there is something special in him. Keep plugging and see what you can produce. :thumbsup:
 
I had planned on putting him with a normal that seems like a good match, but wanted limit both the project size and my mojave production (I did the Mojave het pied clutch, too).
Back on that course for next season.
 

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hhmoore said:
To be honest - I sort of expected this outcome; even though I was hoping for a Mini-Mine and a New Chance...spots on mojaves are the norm. I would love to reproduce the phenotypes of the parents of this clutch - but pairing them together probably wasn't the best way to accomplish that
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I would have thought pairing the two low-spot/spotless *would* be the best way to accomplish it, so I'm curious why you don't think it was?

Anyways, they are so cute, I see why you'd hold onto the two you're thinking about, I think the other two Mojave males are quite nice as well.
 
AbsoluteApril said:
I would have thought pairing the two low-spot/spotless *would* be the best way to accomplish it, so I'm curious why you don't think it was?

Anyways, they are so cute, I see why you'd hold onto the two you're thinking about, I think the other two Mojave males are quite nice as well.
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If the great sire and great dam had spots, and the great great parents did, then it would be expected because the trait is not as "concentrated" yet...even though their descendants are spotless. A few more repeat pairings of spotless and breeding the least spotted children, then you will likely begin establishing that trait's "concentration" in the line. The vice versa also pops up, sometimes a long line of high blue gtps will throw neos that will turn rather plain, but those plain animals will produce stunning offspring of their own, simply because there is that "concentration" in their family. obviously it's more complex than that, but I cannot type that much on my phone lol.
 
yus, I get selective breeding and line breeding, I just would have thought the two spotless parents would be more inclined to throw spotless babies even in the first generation.

Utta said:
Middle pic, and you know it's hurting me to say...

Mine.

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Basically, the tendency toward spots is stronger. Also, while somewhat similar, the two really are pretty different - it seemed less realistic to expect them to produce such markedly different phenotypes, than to expect some sort of blending
I don't know anything about what produced Mine (the real Mine, that is); but "Chance" got his look from his mother. I thought my best chance of replicating him was to use a female that looked like him (the one in post 23)...but I also wanted to see if Mine's look was reproducible; so I paired them together. I can't deny that I would have liked to see miniature versions of the parents; but I was hoping for a super that might have been able to produce both looks. For that reason, I'll be repeating the pairing.

Obviously, I won't be able to keep all of the babies while I screw with this; but it's a project that has my interest.
 
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