>>As i understand the vanishing gene is ...

To the best of my knowledge no one has yet demonstrated vanishing pattern to be "a gene", or a recessive trait. It first appeared--or first got attention--in some of the early years of hypo production, and we've now seen it in a few ghosts (plus some albinos, as pix john and I have posted here demonstrate) so it may or may not be associated with hypos.

But it's been one of those things several people have tested, breeding van patt x van patt together without getting all or mostly van patts. I think it's a tendency, like the range from tricolor to tangerine, influenced by multiple genes, like striped hondos have been so far.

But there's always the chance for something new to occur. I brought in a "new" anerythristic hondo from Honduras this year--to the best of my knowledge the first one imported since the one David Doherty launched all of today's anerys with--and the first thought is to breed it X one of the present anerys, to make sure they're the same allele, the same mutation. OR to establish that they're different (i expect the former). Test breeding and more test breeding is gonna be required if a vanishing pattern ever is demonstrated to be a simple recessive.

To the best of my knowledge.

peace
terry

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