Breeders split hairs when they think someone is encroaching on their investment animals - that's why this hobby is so royally screwed up....most breeders of burms know very little about the natural history of the animals they are working with and most miss the mark on the real joy of keeping them - that's too bad.



Rob Carmichael, Curator

Wildlife Discovery Center

www.girconservation.com



>>Here are some more pictures of her as a baby. Her spots are solid black not brown and outlined, just like you said yours are.

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>>The outlining comes with age.

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>>You say you don't see the green influence, what color are mine? They definitely have a green coloration to them.

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>>My theory is that we are dealing with two pattern morphs, one is no pattern and one is extreme pattern and they are fighting each other. Sometimes the patternless gene wins and sometimes the labyrinth gene wins and sometimes they meet in the middle to make a leopard, which would explain why there were greens and labyrinths in the same clutch as my pair. The only difference I see between yours and mine is that mine has more horizontal lines on their sides and yours only have a couple of horizontal lines. That's why I said that yours has less labyrinth influence in it than mine do.

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>>I don't understand why you are spliting hairs on this?

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>>BTW, we just ultrasounded our female and her follicles are 26mm, so hopefully we get a clutch this year also.

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Rob Carmichael, Curator

The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm

Lake Forest, IL

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