John,



I'm a fan of the old school ground colors myself and have dedicated most my recent breeding efforts towards that goal.



Its interesting that we seem to have this Lemke line that you're working with that does not follow predictable patterns, and then this German line attributed to Lemke that seems to follow simple recessive rules. Historically there seems to be evidence of both types of melanistics going back to the wild collecting days.



It is surprising that some of the older lines that are still available no longer produce melanistics (if they ever did), possibly as the result of selectively breeding for other traits.



Does Robert Applegate still produce any melanistics?



Does anybody still have any of the melanistic stock Frank Retes collected? Joe mentioned he was working with them 25 years ago.



Aaron Mattson, in that old thread, says that he was raising up some melanistics that could possibly be traced to Garstka stock. Maybe Aaron will chime in about that.



Meanwhile, I would love to know what Lance knows about that trio from Larry Briggs. Those are the parents of my '08 pair.







Greg

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