Folks as far as black thayeri are concerned they are the most elusive of all the color morphs for us to produce.



Each year I get a few, mainly from laredo line milk phases bred to a couple of blacks we have had in the collection for a number of years. Even when you breed black to black it does not seem to raise the incidence of the number of blacks we get. The best ratios seem to come from blacks bred to laredo line milk females.



Because of the rarity of them now days, we are starting to see a lot of Mexican Black kings bred into thayeri, in order to produce black intergrades which really sucks from my standpoint.



It seems in the general quest to breed brighter yellows, oranges, buckskins etc. for the last number of years in the hobby we lost one of the prettiest of the phases ie: blacks.



I am concentrating on trying to produce some of the old style color morphs we saw in nature years ago from specific lines regardless of the color variations.



I hate the thought of losing those colors and patterns as they were the ones that attracted me to thayeri years ago, when Lloyd, Randy L. and a few others were bringing them in from collecting trips to Old Mexico.









Cherryville Farms

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