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DonSoderberg
at Mon Aug 25 22:17:56 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DonSoderberg ]
I sense frustration in your posts. Join the club. It's getting harder and harder to tell what we have just by looking. By definition the person you got it from is right. It is missing black. Therefore it is amelanistic.
This industry is getting to a point where you can't always trust your eyes. While an amelanistic is usually just an amelanistic, it can be more. In this case, I believe it to be an amelanistic het. for caramel, but I could be wrong. It could be a butter with very dark markings.
Understand that nobody is going to be able to tell you exactly what it is except the person that bred its parents. Even if we give you all our opinions it isn't going to change what it is or isn't. You don't want to breed it and sell babies based on what the "audience" says it might be. Therefore, until you do breeding trials, all you really know is that it's an amelanistic. It might be homozygous for caramel or it could be heterozygous for it. One way to tell if this is a butter is to breed it to a caramel or variant thereof. I don't recommend breeding it to a butter since some F-1 het. for caramel amelanistic corns can look like butters.
Bottom line. It's just not possible to tell you for sure what you have there. Except to say it's an amelanistic. That I'm sure of.
Good luck,
Don
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It IS an amelanistic corn . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Aug 25 22:17:56 2003