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I have a "lavender" male. I thought he was just a lavender. Oh, he is a real lavender all right. He just happens to be anery(a) too. In addition to that, he is heterozygous for amelanism. None of his masked genetics were known before this year.
I bred him to a motley female proven het-for-amel. I got 12 normals, and 2 female amels. I did not breed the motley female to any other males this year. There are 16 possible phenotypes available if breeding the filial generation to one another. How can I tell Lavender/Snow from Opal or Snow? How about Lavender/Anerys from Lavender/Hypo/Anerys from Lavenders? What about... oh heck, you get the idea. Will you help me ID them in a couple of years? Are you confused yet?

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Jeremy J. Anderson
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

You didn't mention how you found out the lavender is also Anery.
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Mike Heinrich
michael.heinrich@comcast.net

He bred the male lav to a female ghost and produced all anery babies! (I asked him the same thing in an email earlier, and now I have 1.2 of his little anerys - which are het for hypo lav!)

Traci

You are a nice person to deal with.
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Jeremy J. Anderson
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

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Is because I also bred him to a ghost, and got 100% anerys! Those babys will produce:
Lavender Anery
Lavender Ghost
and maybe some with amel in them too, they are P het for amel too.
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Jeremy J. Anderson
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

Let's see here...
Straight Lavender masks Anery A. Animals homozygous for lavender, anery, and amel look like snows, with no discernable difference. I'm not aware of any info in regards to how lavender, anery, hypo looks. Goodluck trying to sort it all out.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

I've noticed that plain old lavenders have some orange in them. My Lavender/Anery doesn't. What are the ghost lavenders going to look like...We'll find out.
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Jeremy J. Anderson
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

I wouldn't count on 'orange' to identify lavender vs lavender-Anery. There are ALOT of lavenders out there that don't have orange (and may even appear brownish or greyish with straight white background), that aren't homozygous for anery.

If you want more information on lavender anery issues, email Rich Z. He's the one that's produced some, and you'll be able to get information straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

This lav has a slight tint of orange? What would make it a pastel?