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ginter
at Thu Aug 21 14:52:10 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ginter ]
Ok you are partially correct...........The Stillwater hypo group is descendent from a couple of animals "rescued from a rattlesnake roundup in Stillwater OK. Actual locality of founders can not be traced to anywhere more specific than that. I believe that the "stillwater" hypo line has been bred to a whole bunch of other localities and non-locality morphs including animals reported to have come from the general Stillwater OK area. So you have "stillwaters" and "stillwater outcrosses". It is my humble opinion that only true from the original blood line animals should be called Stillwaters and everything else should be called and considered a Stillwater outcrosses.....this is probably not very realistic or practical at this point and has taken up lots of time and discussion on the Pit forum off and on over the past few years. I have some nice F2's from the original blood line and it is fairly important for me personally to know that my "stillwaters" are "stillwaters" and not outcrosses but that is a totally personal thing and may not be so important to others. It is a neat trait, there is a lot of potential for the trait when mixed with others, genetic diversity is probably not such a bad idea, and I think that it is a mute point at this time. Billy is probably busy on his way to Daytona or else he would be in here defending the pure line and lamenting the sloppy use of the classification "Stillwater Hypo"
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RE: Stillwater Bulls - ginter, Thu Aug 21 14:52:10 2008