Yeah, photobucket has been screwed up for at least a couple days now for me.

Wow!, that snow certainly does have a weird "paradox" looking eye. It does seem to be a sort of aberrant patterned snow Hondo from what I can tell there, and not someone's hybrid project...LOL!.

Well, no, it really isn't accurate to say a hypo is "het" for extreme because the extreme gene is not a simple recessive trait. It is more a mutated variation of hypo. Extreme x extreme breeding does NOT necessarily produce all extremes. They can often vary quite a bit, and I just had another clutch of these. Some super nice hypos, some "ultra-light" hypos, and some downright KILLER EXTREME hypos all in the very same clutch.

It is far more accurately termed ...hypo(from extreme clutch), or hypo (from extreme lineage), etc.... You cannot produce an extreme hypo unless the extreme gene is in the genetic equation though. A normal hypo x hypo will never produce them unless the extreme gene is in their close genetic makeup. Most people know what is meant when some people term it that way, but it is a bit misleading and inaccurate to state it that way. It isn't a bonified simple recessive gene where they either are, or are not. There can be significant variation among these.

Cool score on the dark-eyed paradox snow!. I hope it is because it has melanin in the pupil and not because it is messed up, because all they said was it was "funky"..LOL!


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