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scottbradley
at Mon Feb 28 00:54:22 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by scottbradley ]
I'll start with a little genetics so that you may understand. First to get a 100% heterozygous animal you have to breed a homozygous (albino or some other morph) animal to anything and all the normal (wild type) will be 100% hets. When you breed 2 100% hets together all the normal's are 66% hets (this is the start of where it might get confusing). When you breed a 100% het to a normal half of the baby's should be het's that's where you get 50%er's. Now to get to what you are referring to when you breed two 66%er's together (or a 50%er to a normal) and you get all normal's that means one or both of your 66%er's is not het, Now one may still be het but you will have to do some more work to find out if one is a het or not but you still have these baby's from this breeding and if one of your animals is a het 50% of the baby's will be het's but you don't know yet so you have a choice to make you could sell them as normal's and just wait to prove the parents out or you could market them as possible possible hets (or some people use the term 25%er's I don't like this because it really creates confusion because some people think that 1 in 4 are het's and this is far from the true). The term Poss Poss het fits better because half of them still have a chance of being het's because one of the parents could still be a het. The problem is that they could also be normal's because both parents could also be normal the only way to prove out a possible het (when I say this I mean after you have tried the possible to possible breeding and it failed to prove out my opinion is this is the next step) is to work with a known 100% het or a homozygous animal. The possible's are a cheaper way to get a morph and it does work as we proved out a possible double het for snow this year which was very cool. Back to these poss poss het's I believe in them but I don't find them to have any value as far as a higher price in the market I think they should be priced as a normal but could be marketed as what they are this should help them sell. I think if you trust the breeder you could give them a try. The best thing to do is educate your self with genetics and once you have a good grasp of it this will all become clear Ralph Davis wrote a couple of papers that explain this in laymen terms in more detail and you can find them on his web site in the section named matrix and they are listed as "hets what are they" parts one and two and " poss hets how to cash in" you can find a link to his site at the top of the forum in the sponsor section I hope this helps thanks for reading Scott Mid Atlantic Morphs
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I will try to explain this for you - scottbradley, Mon Feb 28 00:54:22 2005