To get a creamsicle, you have to have all the following:



a) Emoryii blood (any percentage)



b) Corn blood (any percentage)



AND



c) Expressed amelanism



Breeding a normal to an emoryii will get you hybrids that are normal in coloration for that cross (what are often called rootbeer corns). In order for you to get creamsicles, the amel gene must be introduced to the mix.



If you breed a normal emoryii to a normal corn that is het for amel, you will get:



100% normally colored hybrids, with each hatchling having a 50% possibility of being het for amel (of course the hets will not look any different from their normal siblings).



If you breed a normal emoryii to an amel corn, you will get:



100% normally colored hybrids, with each one of them being 100% het for amel (again, these won't look any different than normals).



If you wait two to three years and breed a het amel hybrid to another het amel hybrid (produced by the emoryii to amel breeding outlined above), you should get:



25% normally colored hybrids, 50% normally colored hybrids het for amelanism, and 25% creamsicles.



You will not get creamsicles from breeding a normally colored emoryii to a normally colored corn, unless BOTH of them are het for amelanism, and in the case of the emoryii, that is not very likely. Creamsicle is simply a name to designate an animal that is amelanistic with emoryii blood in it. So, it is a case of simple recessive Mendelian genetics, and there is no aspect of the process that relies on one trait or another being dominant or co-dominant in any way.



Hope that helps...
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Darin Chappell

Hillbilly Herps

PO Box 254

Rogersville, MO 65742

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