Over the past 35 years or so I have picked up several females from the area that blonds come from and bred them to a blond male to see if I could produce blonds. Well, finaly this past July I picked up a normal looking female suboc that appeared gravid or to be ovulating. I put her with a blond male when I got home but never saw them do anything. She produced 7 eggs and last week they started to hatch. First one out of the egg was a blond and now 3 normals. The other 3 eggs went bad early so we will never know what they were, I plan to open them just to see if I can tell after the last one comes out. Not sure why they went bad, they were in the cooker with 3 other clutches of blonds and blond het for silver that had 100% hatch. Thing is, without the other 3 eggs I will never know what she was bred to, if one of them was a blond, she was bred to a blond, if none of them was blond, she was more likely bred to a het, so the babies are ?????????????% chance het.
Over the years I have tried this several times and never produced blonds. I have collected 2 gravid female blonds and they both produced 100% blond so they where bred to a blond male. Since they ratio of blonds to normals observed in the wild would make it HIGHLY unlikely that a blond female and a blond male happen to bump in to each other when she was ovulating and the chance of that happening twice and the chance of me finding those two females, well I would say that the odds of winning the lottery would be better and I haven't done that. Anyway, I was starting to think that there was some selective breeding going on and there where no hets in the wild.
Just thought I would share that.
Later
Rick
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Finaly collected a het for blond female
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Congratulations 
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"And the rest is all in his head"
and here are two that I just got from you, though they are not from this wild female, they are both VERY nice!! Thanks for the time on the phone Rick and for helping get these two gems to me, I cannot wait to see them.
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Cheers
Lateralis
"I would rather be precisely wrong than approximately right"
Marion "Doc" Ford
Congratulations, Rick.
That is too cool.
Next year, or the year after, I'll be trying to cross the same: a normal male from the same local with the female blond I got from you 2 years ago.
It's like playing a slot machine!!!
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Regards, Bill McGighan
