possibility of something like that happening. I would say at this point, that anything is possible which is kind of scary.



Sean had a conversation with Brian at BHB Enterprises a while ago about this very topic. Brian said that if he breeds a normal female to a homozygous recessive morph (like an Albino or a Piebald) one year and does not repeat the exact same breeding the next year, he will not use a different homozygous recessive morph but will use a dominant or co-dominant morph instead.



That way, the babies from the following year can be marketed as either the dominant/co-dominant morph or normals. HOWEVER, the normals can potentially not be just normals.



For example, let's say he breeds an Albino to a normal and produces a clutch of 100% Hets. Next year, he wants to use the female on a different project. However, he won't use her in another simple recessive project. So, instead, he would breed her to a Spider to produce Spiders and "normal" appearing babies.



Now you can be absolutely sure that the Spider babies were sired by the Spider. He would sell off the normal appearing babies as just normals. Now those could potentially not be just normals but het. Albinos IF retained sperm was used to fertilize them.



However, in this instance, the customer would not be getting less than what they paid for which would be our main concern. Sure, it would be a shame to sell a het. animal as a normal but I find it to be much worse to accidentally sell a normal as a het. animal.



It would all come back to what sort of guarantees on genetics you are willing to offer your potential customers.



Thanks,

Celia
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