Bred my female hypo bull to a snow bull this year. She laid 26 eggs that have been in the cooker for a month now. Will they all come out normal looking, double het for hypo and snow or should I expect something else? Input?
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Snow X Hypo?
jrd
Jul 03, 2003 11:40 AM
Replies (3)
Al Stotton
Jul 03, 2003 12:22 PM
Last year i bred a female snow annectans wit a male hypo annectans,I was toally convinced (in my own head!) that the babies would all hatch out normal(2xhets),but i was dreamin of hypos or snows!
The 5 outta 8 that hatched were all Male Albino!!! HUH!! that was somewhat difficult for me and my pals to explain!
The only thing i can summise is that the albino gene that of course went into makin the snow and hypos was showing some kind of dominence!!??
The intersetin thing will be breeding one of these "albino hets@ with either a hypo or snow.
Let me know the results and good luk wi em
KJUN
Jul 03, 2003 05:14 PM
>>The 5 outta 8 that hatched were all Male Albino!!! HUH!! that was somewhat difficult for me and my pals to explain!
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>>The only thing i can summise is that the albino gene that of course went into makin the snow and hypos was showing some kind of dominence!!??
Actually, it sounds like your hypo was het for albino.
When you bred a snow bullsnake(= albino and white-sided) to a hypo het albino bullsnake, you'd get ON AVERAGE 50% albinos het for white-sided and hypo and 50% normals het for hypo, albino, and white-sided. Very cool triple hets, but no implication at all that the hypo and albino genes are related OR that the albino gene is dominant. Replace "white-sided" with "axanthic
or "anerythristic" to go from bullsnakes to annectans. The inheritance is the same, but the mutations involved in making a "snow" are just different.
Back to the original post: Unless your snow is het for hypo or your hypo is het for white-sided or albino (or they are both het for some other trait), expect to just get all normals, but they would be triple hets! 
KJ
Paul Hollander
Jul 03, 2003 05:19 PM
I thought that snow was a combination of albino and axanthic. If this is wrong, please correct me. If this is correct, then mating a snow to a hypo produces triple hets, not double hets.
Albino from a snow x hypo mating most likely means that the hypo is also heterozygous albino.
Paul Hollander
