The world's first breeding of a patternless female BCI by a patternless male BCI produced a lovely litter of healthy Sterlings today.

I think it is safe to conclude that the Sterling gene is a simple recessive mutation.

I have twice bred het x het (4 different Boas) producing roughly 25% visual Sterlings in each litter.

I have twice bred Sterling x het (3 different animals) and produced roughly 50% Sterlings in each litter.

I have bred a Sterling to an unrelated super-hypo and produced no Sterlings (all hypo het Sterlings).

And today, Sterling x Sterling has produced a full litter of Sterlings.

I'm kind of over the moon. What a great day.

Here's a few pics.











Thanks for looking.

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• Sterling x Sterling - maizeysdad, Sun Jun 1 18:08:06 2014
• RE: Sterling x Sterling - tibor, Sun Jun 1 19:59:27 2014
• That is just so - mike_panic, Mon Jun 2 08:32:31 2014
• WOW X WOW = - newworldmorphs, Mon Jun 2 11:14:56 2014
• RE: Sterling x Sterling - LarM, Mon Jun 2 16:17:52 2014
• RE: Sterling x Sterling - UW_Colormorphs, Mon Jun 2 16:57:07 2014