"More breeding with that bloodline needs to be done before every animal that derives from that bloodline can be considered a true harlequin." I am a huge fan of the looks of harlequins. They are truely a beautiful bloodline. But if you breed a harlequin to a normal how on earth can every baby be considered a harlequin. They have a certain look and traits like abberancies that make them harlequins. If you took a baby from that breeding and bred it to a hypo. Then took a hypo from that breeding and bred it to another hypo, will all of the babies be harlequins? Will any of the babies be harlequins? Will any of the babies show abberancies? It just makes sense that without constantly breeding them back to other harlequins the harley look will eventually be washed out and not exist in the offspring. I realize that harlequins are considered a bloodline and not a morph but they do have a certain look. I hear things like we really don't know how harlequins work yet, we are still trying to figure it out. Then you simply shouldn't call all of the babies from them harlequins. It simply isn't proven yet. Like I said before I am a fan of the look of harlequins, and right now I'm sure most of the babies being produced by them look harlequin, but eventually after many breedings it is possible that not one baby will look harlequin. Let's hope that one of the Magee's will respond without saying shoot me an email.

Michael Burton

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