Okay, first of all, let me say I'm not for OR against this idea, but just wondering what everybody thinks.
Bill Kirby (an awesome guy-congrats on the litter, Bill!) just produced a litter below that made me want to ask about this idea. He said that he had produced a litter by breeding a male hypo to a female suri a while back. The babies at that point would be 50% suri. Now say you took one of those hypo babies and bred it to a pure suri I guess the babies would then be 75% suri?
Okay, so you take one of THOSE hypo babies and breed it to ANOTHER pure suri. Keep doing this for generations and you could keep the hypo gene but breed the suri influence back into them. Eventually, you have babies that would be pretty much indistinguishable from pure suris, but many of them would be hypos (the only give away).
You could do this with Hoggs or ANYTHING really, but with all the sunset crosses out there, step 1 is already done.
Really, this is pretty much we did with Panamanian hypos into the Colombian lines. Now, though a lot of us know that it’s not completely accurate, no one bats an eye when you advertise “Hypo Colombians.”
Please remember that I said I haven't taken a side on this one yet, but just wanted to see what everyone thought. I'm not trying to stir anything up, so everyone please be nice when you answer.

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