Matt,

I held back Oh just a couple bcls from 03 ( ok 9 but that not to many right) adn this year I had a litter of 25 and no two are a like. there are a lest 4 or five color types in the litter as i see it but maybe im net picking to much. some bibes are a dark dity browns some are a rich chocalote color and some are a light brown in the saddles. body color can be sort of brown, grey, kind of a green and golden yellow and butter yellow. I dont know about the green yet but grey and brownish tend to by the two most common color for bcls ( I like the greys better then brown for a normal) the golden and the butter yellow are the codom and the dom from of a hyper yellow ( i think need some time to work this out still) you said you say some that looked hypo? did they have a real real pale yellow wash to them? the yellow trait seems to reduce over all color. I have produce two longicauda's that I think are dom yellow and are anerys. (half of my stock is anery) as babies their saddles where realy fade to the point of blending with their back ground color in places. as a yearling the yellow anery has more broken patches of black in her saddles and her black color looks flat when place next to a normal anery that has a glossy black color. so in normals the high the pigment in babies the more black they will have as an adult so if the body and the saddles are close in color like the dark brown babies then the adult will be almost all black. the higher the contrast between the saddles and the background color the more contrast you see in adults ( that why people like the grey body animals the most ) they golds and the butter yellow get as black it takes longer then some of the other color but they get more and more yellow as they age (think bumble bee). here is a pick of my female hope this helps sorry to ramble but if you need some more in let me know there more stuff about color that Im pondering

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