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I just can not understand why know one has been successfull producing albino supers yet. I understand the fact that most of the big breeders are working with a longer time line and producing albino tigers first and then breeding them together but why hasn't any tiger het to tiger het breedings produced any. According to my calculations that 6.25% of a clutch should be albino supers. So out of a 35 egg clutch approximately 2 should be albino supers. Why hasn't this happened. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, Todd

I think the biggest reason is that albino Tigers have not been around that long......that is if someone was waiting to produce albino Supers by breeding albino tigers.
THe other way of course would be by breeding Tigers 100% het albino.
Now, I do believe they will be here this year, but it is only the second week of February. Most are just laying eggs (retics) this time of year or even just now breeding.
WAY too early, I think.
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Brian Oakley
Phoenix, Arizona
BrianOakley@cox.net

Hey Todd,

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that everyone (including me) rushes their girls to breed asap and due to being younger and smaller the clutches are quite smaller. I'd say that most first clutches under these circumstances are less than 20 eggs. How many hatch is another factor. And the percentages of what "should be there" and what "are there" are usually quite different.

>>I just can not understand why know one has been successfull producing albino supers yet. I understand the fact that most of the big breeders are working with a longer time line and producing albino tigers first and then breeding them together but why hasn't any tiger het to tiger het breedings produced any. According to my calculations that 6.25% of a clutch should be albino supers. So out of a 35 egg clutch approximately 2 should be albino supers. Why hasn't this happened. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, Todd
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6.25 albino supers looks good on paper, but seldome does ot work that way. in a het tiger X het tiger breeding you could end up with all the normal patterned animals being the only albinos because genetically (one the square) 25% are going to be albino (in theory) and 25% of that clutch (on the square) will have normal pattern. To me, this isn't likely, but it is possible to come out this way.