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RandyRemington
at Sun Oct 17 15:30:37 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
Was Possible's father an imported pastel or one of the early captive bred ones? Maybe the grandmother was a nicer looking normal. Who knows, maybe some of these high yellow “normal” things could be recessive (or of course polygenetic).
I guess it just comes down to if you can always identify a pastel. Maybe the bellies could help.
Since pastel is a single gene they either have it or they don't. If the pastel siblings that didn't get the pastel gene are often above average looking it has to be due to something other than the pastel gene (which they didn't get). I'm just speculating that there has been some selection pressure to get some nice bright "normal" genes into the pastel lines. Even for the first breedings they may have been looking for compatible females thinking it might be recessive and picked some very pastel like normals.
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