I thought I would share a couple of photos from a litter born a few days ago. I had initially paired my motley het albino female and sunglow again trying to duplicate last year. However, he went into a shed so I pulled him after two weeks of courting and put an albino male in with her in the meantime. He was with her about 2 weeks also. A couple of days after I put the sunglow back in she was swelling and went into a shed. This turned out to be her POS. She had a by the “book” gestation and gave birth 106 days POS. All babies were cooked quite nicely.
I was initially worried that the males may not have got the job done. I really hadn't planned on pairing her for a month or two but something made me decide to do so. Because I had used two males I was also quite interested to see what would be born in the litter. Who was the sire? The sunglow, albino or both.
Well there was not a hypo gene in the bunch so it looks like the sunglow was trumped by my stud albino. The sunglow had already done a great job on a special project girl so I don’t hold a grudge against him.
My albino odds were a little light but the motley ratio was killer. My girl gave me 26 babies. 5 albino motleys, 12 motley het albinos. 4 albinos and 5 hets. Needless to say, I’m thrilled!
I have seen some great litters posted on here lately. Congratulations to everyone and best of luck to those still waiting. ---Kraig
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