. . . with more and more selective breedings going on, this marker (if true) will be out-dated. I have a real nice male het (proven) that has no speckling and I've seen many more lately from breeding nice looking normals to Albinos. Jeff Ronne was the first that I heard of having noticed such a marker, and he hinted a few things from what I've read -- 1) That he saw a classified ad for a poss het, and could see the "marker trait" that he looks for in the pic. 2) He said that the possible hets that has the "mark" are "prettier"/ he doesn't call boas pretty, so I'm not sure what he meant.
I've looked long and hard at mt 100% hets, and my recently produced 66% poss hets, and there is one thing that I see on all of my hets, and most of my poss hets, and not at all on my normals. I'm not going to risk public embarrassment by sharing my theory because I haven't done any breedings to support my opinion. I've also seen what I look for on all of the hets that were at the Aneheim NARBC . In my last breeding of poss hets, I had a couple of guys with more speckling than I've ever seen and also with the mark that I look for, but the one that I may hold onto with the mark is among the cleanest of the batch, like good old daddy. -----Have fun with this possible het maze, I'm sure there are many different theories, and mine may be as false as most. I've heard of a few, but I'd find the same marks on my norms, or wouldn't see it on my hets. -David/Morgans Boas
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