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Breeding for a trait

FunkyRes Jun 29, 2006 04:44 PM

Typical wild banded California Kings - they often have what I like to call "horseshoe bands" that are two brown bands that join together to make a horse shoe. Usually it happens where the bands change direction. IE if < is the head - < / / /

/ and / where the bands join together at the angle are what I'm calling a "horshoe band".

One of my little guys has one that is actually several horse shoe's - 3 of them together. It's fairly close to his head - < / ///

I'm curious if anyone has attempted - or succesfully - bred a Cal King that has continuous - or almost continuos - horseshoes over its entire body.

Is that a trait that even can be bred for? I assume to try you would want to pick specimens that have a high count of horseshoes to begin with - but I'm not sure that it really is something that can be bred for per se.

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FunkyRes Jun 29, 2006 04:45 PM

Arg - the forum at my ascii examples. I'll make a png.

FunkyRes Jun 29, 2006 04:51 PM

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