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jlassiter
at Fri Sep 26 22:16:30 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jlassiter ]
>>It did not. I bred a male melanistic back to his mother and got zero black offspring. Not statisically impossible but highly unlikely. Also of those pairings that did produce black offspring, the ratio was way less than 1 in 4. Again this small sample doesn't prove anything but I recall speaking with other breeders having similar experience. That melanistic thayeri is a recessive trait is new to me but not nessesarily incorrect.
This is what I meant by "hard to pin down"......
I have heard this a number of times also Tony...
I have also heard that it is a recessive trait..
I guess we won't know the answer unless some one breeds the melanistics on a larg(er) scale.................
----- John Lassiter
"Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part....."
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