OK. Here they are, finally. That only took 3 hours. What a pain in the ass trying to delete old photos to make room for new. That gallery needs some work. You can only view your own first page then you get lost. Anyway.....
I got 7 eggs this year from my black back female that everyone has seen a thousand times over the last 4 years. I always use this pic of her because it shows off that back perfectly. She was bred to her Cinny son from last year. I was attempting to prove some kind of genetic inheritance for the black back. That's been done. She's had 19 eggs now, and this is the first time she's produced any normal offspring that resembled her whatsoever. I'm a little confused though now on exactly what's going on since the male has a perfect black back too.
I consider his black back coming from being a Cinny, which naturally have a black back pattern. He was the only one out of 4 last year with this patterning. I want to say this has now been proven recessive, but it could also be phenotypic, couldn't it? Here are the parents:
