Hi there, so what do you mean by 'normal' females?
Normal hondurans? normal mix/wild type central americans? normal colombians?
If they are normal hondurans, are they normals from the litter the male came from? or unrelated?

If approximately 50% of the trait carries aberrancies, then it is obviously working in a codominant or incomplete dominant fashion, but can only be gauranteed by further breeding.
Another thing that would need to be done with that, and also for the reason of pricing and determining genetic value of the normal or less aberrant offspring, is breed those to normals..
You would need to breed each, the less aberrant, and normal lookings to normals, and to each other, and only then can you know for sure how the gene works.

Another thing is that if the gene 'proves', then you can safely say it is genetic to some extent, but you would still not be able to justify the 'Tiger' brand until you saw the aberrancies of all, and they were consistant in some way or another.

My honest opinion.. what do you all think?


later - Joe

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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