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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• ARAB X ARAB,,,,,,or ARAB X HYPO??????? - toine, Sat Oct 21 08:25:38 2006
• RE: ARAB X ARAB,,,,,,or ARAB X HYPO??????? - Randall_Turner, Sat Oct 21 08:49:22 2006
• thanks,,,,,,more - toine, Sat Oct 21 09:12:19 2006
• RE: thanks,,,,,,more - vcaruso15, Sat Oct 21 10:10:59 2006
• RE: thanks,,,,,,more - toine, Sat Oct 21 10:38:43 2006
• I agree - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Sat Oct 21 12:37:49 2006
• RE: I agree - toine, Sat Oct 21 14:32:46 2006
• by the way,,NUCCIZ BOAS,,,more - toine, Sat Oct 21 15:08:53 2006
• RE: I agree - ChrisGilbert, Sat Oct 21 15:30:01 2006
• you're right! but food for thought..... - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Mon Oct 23 23:17:26 2006
• RE: you're right! but food for thought. - ChrisGilbert, Tue Oct 24 07:17:40 2006
• ARAB X ARAB in my opinion - sun_king, Sat Oct 21 14:25:54 2006
• RE: ARAB X ARAB in my opinion - toine, Sat Oct 21 14:45:31 2006
• RE: ARAB X ARAB in my opinion - Ophidia_Junkie, Sat Oct 21 21:58:45 2006
• Steve Hammond??? - sun_king, Sat Oct 21 22:10:01 2006
• RE: Steve we need HELP,,,,,,, - toine, Sun Oct 22 14:37:51 2006