See here is where I am looking at this from. If a hog were nothing more than a locality specific look or a poligenic look then if it were paired with a normal and you produced a litter of straight up crosses. Took any given pair of these crosses and bred them together their offspring should all look like crosses, (kind of a half hog color) like their mother and father. Making a baby with the full coloration of a hog would require crossng back to hogs, or refining the look back to what a hog looks like over several generations.

Now I can't say that this has been done because instead of normals, hypos have been paired with hogs and thats where I have been looking at this from. So some of the babies color is masked with hypo coloration. But... how do you come up with babies that look like hogs from a pair of f2 hypo hogs?

It has been known that a sunset is a super hypo from F1 hypo hog x hypo hog. These are the litters that produce the babies born along side sunsets with this hog look on some of the babies in some instances.. As far as I know Kevins litter was the furthest generation out on these type boas. His breeders are F2's and the offspring are the first F3's I am aware of.

In the first generation pairings of hypo hogs you are more likely to produce sunsets from what we can see. Because both breeders are half hypo and half hog. The F2 litter born from these pairings could have some sunsets, some super hypos that are co-dom with the blond trait or just super hypos,super "blonds" and co-dom hypo co-dom "blonds" normals and mixes of both, from our perspective.

Whether I'm right or wrong in my theory, you have to admit it's a pretty interesting find. Collective research is what this hobby needs. Kevin has all levels of hypo hogs, supers, 75% hogs, crosses, "blonds"...ETC... As soon as I get a chance to make it to his house we will get pics of all of these levels for some hard proof.
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com

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