You're right, Randy. We can gleen a lot of information from this cross, make some interesting double-hets, and go ahead and make more burgundy-albinos as well.



Since we know the pattern of inheritance for the VPI axanthic appearance is as a simple recessive trait, then if the burgundy-albino appearance should turn out to inherited as a co-cominant or dominant trait, we will see burgundy-albinos in the babies produced by this breeding.



If the babies produced by this cross are all normal in appearance, then we will assume that the burgundy-albino appearance is a simple recessive trait and that all the babies are double-hets. We'll raise them and breed them to each other, plus we will breed one of the males to the burgundy-albino herself.



If the odds gods are smiling, the double-het crosses can produce normals (with a potential of three types of hets) plus burgundy-albinos, axanthics, and whatever the double-homozygous recessives look like.



The son bred back to the mother should produce 50% burgundy-albinos, and everything in the clutch has a 50% chance of being het-axanthic.



Our VPI axanthics have essentially no yellow pigments and the burgundy-albino has no black pigments--who knows what the cross might look like? It should be interesting and it might be GORGEOUS. We'll just have to wait and see...
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