"Basically, the one question I am really looking for answer to is if the offspring is normal looking and the are double homo, with 2 different alellic hypo genes will the offspring between to "hets" be masked by the lighter of the 2 or will they enhance the one single hypo visual look? ( I hope I am stating everything correctly)"

Now THAT is a GREAT question Jimmy!,....because who really knows what would actually happen???

I would "tend" to think that the individuals produced would more than likely be a bit variable, and of course some could indeed look more of one type or the other if the gene is indeed incompatible and are actually two separate mutations. But only future test breeding will conclude any of this. This is what makes stuff so interesting..LOL!

Looks like you have a very interesting project ahead of you bro!. Your outcome would no doubt be interesting to many other milk folks too...me included!

Look forward to seeing your future results on those Jimmy!

I have some future projects here that will definitely have me scratching my head over as well, so don't feel all alone brother..LMAO!!

I have some very young "t-plus" carriers here from Shannon's nelsoni line too, and I don't know what the heck to expect later on to be quite honest. Nothing about it seems to be real conclusive or predictable thus far about exactly how the gene dynamics works or is inherited other than it "seems" to be a so-called "co-dominant" gene alellic with amelanism??. Maybe it works something like the "ultra/ultramel" gene in cornsnakes..*cough*(hybrids)

Another weird one is this bizarre "moonshine hypo?" greenish ratsnake gene I have here that was just recently discovered from a wild/caught locality animal back in 2006 and more were propagated in 2008 through 2010 when bred to other locality normal females. These are definitely not "cookie-cutter" phenotypes either, so it will be an on-going interesting project as well.

Have fun with figuring some of it out Jimmy!, heck, that's part of all the fun!



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