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WrathRaptor
at Mon Jul 18 01:00:31 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by WrathRaptor ]
My friend at Rare Serpents has been working with a specific locality of green-phase Dusty Hogs for the last few years. Last year he bred a normal male to his female green-phase and produced a clutch that was half green-phase and half normal. This led us to believe that his green-phase hogs might actually be carrying a co-dom for the trait.
So, he bred back one of the green-phase offspring to the mother and produced an interesting mix in a clutch of 10 eggs, which yielded the approximate 1:2:1 ratio one would expect from a co-dom x co-dom breeding.
This is the female that produced both clutches
And this is the male he bred to her to prove out the co-dom cross.
He produced 2 normal looking hogs
There were 5 green-phase hogs.
And finally three hogs which we believe to represent the superform were produced.
This is the best looking of the three, so I took a picture both with and then without the flash to get a real feel for what these snakes look like.
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It is also really interesting that these hogs have a a strong trend in exhibiting twin-spotting. It's a really cool project he's working on. And although I'm a large colubrid guy myself, I always enjoy photographing his hogs for him.
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