Some of it comes down to economics, some to luck of the draw on baby acquisition.

Many can't (or won't) afford the top babies with the top price tags. And of course the stunners get swooped up quickly. Both by the actual breeder (holdbacks) and those that find out about them early and act quickly. The cream of the litters always rises to the top and is removed quickly leaving the rest. Those also get sold off and still have the potential to create babies.

IMO any litter of babies will get a smattering of other genes from both parents and will have a range of colors more or less centered around the colors of the parents. And I don't mean just one specific color or trait. Like previously said polygenetics. Besides the single morph gene (or two if you consider stripe) of a Kahl albino, there are many more (thousands?) of other genes that come into play. So, if you take babies with the traits you want More red for example and breed them together, their babies will also tend to have colors plus and minus of their parents. BUT, those parents had more red so the average baby will have more red and the top end will be higher than the top end of the litter(s) the parents came from.

And so on and so on.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
21.29 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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