I'm not really sure if anybody has really done the work towards understanding the heritability of solid black belly hogs that are not Anacondas. It's a project I've been meaning to work on for many years now as I had a solid black belly male, bred him to a normal checkered belly female and out of 4 eggs, produced 2.1 solid black bellies and a 0.1 99% black belly (which I just sold and shipped today), so 75% turned out solid black, kind of an interesting percentage.

I did breed one of the male siblings to his all black belly sister a couple of years ago but I lost that clutch (and unfortunately several others due to excessive incubating temps) and I've never bothered to try breeding them again due to many other projects that always prioritized themselves.

More linebreeding as well as outcrossing will hopefully determine what is at work here and whether or not we are dealing with Mendelian traits.
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Troy Rexroth
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