what do you breed to get a leucistics im very interested to know, i have a couple leucistic and want know if i could breed them together or do i have to breed them with a normal to get leucistic babys...thank you
bosc1973
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how do you get leucistic?
bosc1973
May 27, 2004 11:46 AM
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Jolliff
May 28, 2004 10:36 AM
You would have to breed animals from that bloodline. Breed Leucistic X Leucistic = 100% Leucistics
Leucistic X Normal = 100% Hets. (wild-type that carries the genes to reproduce Leucistics)
Leucistic X Het. = 50% Leucistic & 50% Hets.
Het. X Het. = 25% Leucistics & 75% Poss. Hets.
****66% of the wild-type animals will be Hets. & 33% of the wild-types will not & be normal (genetically speaking).
****The odds are statistics only - each individual animal has these odds - sometimes they work out better - sometimes worse
Mass_chaos
Jun 10, 2004 09:46 PM
Leucistic is a genetic trait that is recessive so if you have two leucistics and you breed them together you should get
25% leucistics
25%normal
50% heterozygous animals.
Heterozygous meaning normal lookin but they carry the gene
Jolliff
Jun 11, 2004 01:42 PM
If you breed two Leucistics together - you get all (100%) Leucistics.
Mass_Chaos
Jun 11, 2004 02:00 PM
OOPS. I thought you meant heterozygous animals. that is wrong that should all be leucistics.
