"1) Does Butter X Mojave produce a Blue eyed Lucy...just like the Lesser X Mojave? Is it just as white?"

I believe that is accurate but I’m far from having done it myself.

"2) Is Butter X Butter also kicking Blue eyed Lucys? I would assume not super Butters?"

Again, I've not done this cross (and don't yet own butter or lesser) but I've seen at least one picture of a homozygous Butter and it was a nice blue eyed leucistic. The definition of "super" is a bit vague but some use it in place of "homozygous" so they might call that BEL a "super butter".

"3) In other words....is the Butter and the Lessers on the open market pretty much the same animals with a few exceptions."

This one I'm for sure not qualified to answer (probably not on the first two either). I'm not sure even those who have both lessers and butters are unanimous as to if they are different or the same mutations.

"4) Is it only Ralphs line that carriers the Super Platty gene...do all Lesser have that potential?"

It's looking like lesser and the mutation that combines with it to make a platy (not sure on the official name, might be "hidden" or "platy sib" are alleles - different mutations of the same gene. If this is the case then no lesser could carry the extra genetics to produce a platy or else it would already be a platy. In this scenario, all lessers are half of a platy but the trick is that you need another animal with the other half (either a platy or a hidden which looks pretty much normal from all reports so far). The hidden mutation can not come from a lesser X normal but only from a hidden or platy parent.

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• Butter vs. Lesser Platty - jim_perron, Sun Mar 8 08:20:22 2009
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