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Paradox on a pewter?

wtgreg Sep 15, 2010 06:14 PM

I a very familiar with paradoxes on recessive traits and a few supers, but admittedly the extent of my knowledge of paradoxes is fairly limited.
Most ball enthusiast have seen the albinos, pieds, and lucys with black, other coloring, or other pattern showing through, but does a situation with a two dom traits constitute a paradox if one presents itself abnormally within the mix?
Specifically, this year my pewter project yielded two pewters from a 7 egg clutch; one of the pewters has a pastel/yellow circle the size of the diameter of a standard bic pen, in the center of it's back showing clearly through amidst the gray of the pewter's coloring. Within the patterning next to the dot is a yellow blushing which is less clear than the dot, so at this point I will throw it out there, but I expect it to turn out to be standard blushing that will fade at this point.
Those with more experience with paradoxes than I, does this yellow dot constitute 'paradox,' and if not, within the scenario I have set up, what would?
Having never hit a paradox personally, I may just be ignorantly hopeful, so clarification would be greatly appreciated.

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wtgreg Sep 15, 2010 07:13 PM

Pics: they don't really show the coloring difference, but enough you get the idea.



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