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I never followed the Red Devil thread way back when and I tried to find it now and couldn't. I was just wondering if the explaination of the dead baby was attributed to polyploidy or what the general consensus was?

There are so many possible genetic problems that I don't know how you (general you, not you) would even infer polyploidy (extra chromosomes) over something else. Polyploidy could be determined by a genetics lab, but most forms of polyploidy don't even allow for development; in humans they usually end in miscarriage very early in fetal development. It certainly could be polyploidy, but it could also be a genetic code mutation like a base mutation, insertion/deletion mutation, etc. With our selective breeding for certain morphs we also often end up with inbreeding quite often and that can introduce other genetic weaknesses and increase the frequency of medical anomalies. I think without histopathologies, genetics testing, a thorough necropsy, etc we are all just guessing.

Seeing as the red devil is a genetic impossibility without polyploidy, how would one infer anything but? That is my question.