I came home last night to find that Ivory, my Russian line T positive Albino, had a very successful first litter. Preliminary count is 21 babies & 4 unfertilized eggs. This is a special litter and, as far as I know, the first of its kind. Mom is a T positive albino that was born in Russia in 2005. I imported her from Poland in early 2007. The Russian line of T positive is also called "Blonde". Dad is a Red Group line Jungle that I produced here in 2006. It looks like at least 9 of these babies received the Jungle mutation from Dad so these are Jungles 100% Het Blonde T positive. I was surprised by the number of large, healthy babies in this litter. Mom was raised slow and was 12.9 lbs at 4.5 yrs of age when the breeding trial began. After birthing she was at 9.3 lbs. I have put a lot of time, effort, and money into this project and its exciting to finally see these special genes passed to a new generation. I have two other litters expected from my group of "Blondes" so I hope to have a variety of outcrossed hets for the next stage of the project. I have a high red "normal" gravid by one of my male Blondes and a Motley female gravid by a male Blonde from a different breeding. If all goes well, I should have hets from three different outcrossings along with Jungle Hets and Motley Hets. That may be overly optimistic but we'll see.....shouldn't be a long wait.....one is due today and the other on June 14.
Mom:
Dad:
All 21 youngins':
Jungles het Blonde:
Thanks for looking,
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