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Most Sharp Albino's have peaks, why is that? Could that old story
about the Suri (maybe different BCC)Albino's get imported here
when there was NO WAY it was going to happen? Im asking in hope
there is something I am missing and Hope not to start a war path
by asking this. Any and all comments are appreciated. It just
almost makes sense...
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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is my only way, you dont like it? Sorry!

There is no way to prove one way or the other with 100% accuracy. I have heard both sides of the story , and really dont have an opinion on it. I sell them as BCI like most breeders, unless they knowingly breed BCC or CA blod into the sharps. Those breeders clearly state this when selling them. My sharps have shown some limited peeking , but I have seen BCI normals with peeking.?????

Something to figure out......
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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is my only way, you dont like it? Sorry!

OK,
when the first Sharps came about the early stock had really blocky saddles which were usuallly peaked to some level. I heard the B.C.C story but if you look at the true BCC Albinos that have come into this country,they all had really deep red tails and looked closer to Kahl Albinos colorwise than Sharps do. All of the early Sharp stock had more of an orange or burnt orange coloration to them. Like Dan said,there are Clolumbians that have been known to have peaked saddles and it could just be from what area they came out of. Who knows if somewhere down the line a little BCC blood got into the bloodline as there are no fences dividing the areas and locals. All I know is what I said above,that the few true BCC Albinos that have made it into the states all had really red markings not orange like the Sharps do.
As the hypo blood was introduced to the Sharps, we stated seeing less of the classic blockey peaked saddles but they still usually show atleast a few peaked saddles in each animal and you will still get some that every saddles is peaked just not as common anymore do to the Hypo blood reducing the saddles and the peak-age to I guess. I do like how the Hypo blood is bringing out more reds and purples in the Sharps but an still a sucker for the "Old School" look. I'm glad I still have some animals that are pre Hypo blood and am actually expecting some babies from my very first Sharp albino girl in a few weeks if everything goes ok. She from pre Hypo blood and I hope that reflects on the babies. Hope this helps a little Kenny!

I wanted to add to this thread a picture of one of the albino surinam BCcs, I got this pic from this forum and saved it in one of my PC files, I think back in 2003 or 2004, so I have no idea who to give credit to for the pic (SORRY!)

You can see how deep and RED the tail saddles are, like nothing we've seen in the sharp lines IMO.

I will also add that I have produced litters from colombian BCi x colombian BCi were some of the babies had peaked saddles (usually in the first 2-5 saddles from the head). My '98 het kahl strain albino directly from Peter Kahl has 2 saddles with tiny peaks (if he had BCc blood in there he'd probably make better looking albino kids lol).

Of course, I do not know much about sharp strains, so not comenting directly on them, just wanted to add this extra info in and there are probably some people that have never seen the pic of the albino suri before.

on a side note, I have a poss het sharp and a harlequin het sharp, neither of which have peaks
-April
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I never saw that pic before, now I know what you both were
talking about. Wow!! that is a different tail huh?
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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is my only way, you dont like it? Sorry!

Thank you very much for taking that amount of time to respond to
my thread. I appreciate it a lot!!
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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is my only way, you dont like it? Sorry!