I am sorry, I stand corrected. It was Steve Hammond. Brain-fart there for a moment. Thank you for the correction.

Yes, I saw and even saved the pictures of the arab x arab babies, rather cool looking. Stretched out/missing saddles. However, as far as Ive seen, thats the only litter to have come out like that. I believe it was Glades Herp had some arab x arab offspring in Daytona this year, looked like normal het arabs to me.

Taking something into consideration. (I know this is crossing BCI x BCC, but bear with me) If we bred a normal argentine (BCC) to a normal BCI, we would have offspring that have traits of both, and all babies would look relatively the same as eachother.

That being said, taking the arabesque bred to a normal BCI, I have yet to produce arabesques of my own until this year hopefully, but I believe the litter would be 50/50 right? 50% would be obvious arabesques, the other 50% would be normal BCI. I guess from that standpoint, arabesque would prove out as a gene as you said. and I certainly hope you're right because I love the arabesques and have quite a collection of my own.

I don't know, I guess the science is behind it so far supporting what you say, but something just doesn't seem right. I guess I am not completely satisfied because the gene has been around for a while now and we still have so many questions about it. I guess time will tell, as if we haven't waited long enough.

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