Just a quick question for any breeders out there that have experience with melanistic thayeri. If you breed a pair of melanistics, will they throw all melanistic offspring, or a mixture?
Thanks,
Jeff Robbe
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melanistic thayeri
jr56
Apr 04, 2008 12:10 PM
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charleshanklin
Apr 04, 2008 09:01 PM
With melanistic thayeri there is no guarantees. Its something thats in the blood that is similar to the oreo pueblans that Shannon Brown started to produce.
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jlassiter
Apr 05, 2008 11:17 AM
You will more than like get some dark looking MSPs and possibly few melanistic.....but the trait is definitely not a single recessive trait. I tried it for years and all I ever got were MSPs, but I did raise a pair MSP up from a melanistic to melanistic pairing and they produced many melanistics.....never all melanistics.
John Lassiter
MESOZOIC
Apr 10, 2008 10:54 AM
>>Just a quick question for any breeders out there that have experience with melanistic thayeri. If you breed a pair of melanistics, will they throw all melanistic offspring, or a mixture?
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff Robbe
In my experience I've always got all melanistics, and I know 2 other people with melainistic Thayeris and they always reproduced all melainistic thayeri. I've always thought it to be a recessive gene. Thats how this was possible.....
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