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Hi,

I'm in the UK and have a lovely pair of four year old hypo bulls. When I bred them for the first time last year I got hypo and amelanistic babies plus some pure white babies with gorgeous faint yellow dorsal markings and patternless flanks and almost colourless eyes. (Snows, I guess?) The female has laid a clutch of twenty good looking eggs again this year...I'll try and post pics soon.

However, I'm assuming these hypos are multiple het for snow and amelanistic. I have since bred my male to a salt and pepper female - what morphs are likely to result? Is the salt and pepper a genetic trait (down the anery line?) - am I right in thinking I may get ghosts from this breeding?

Cheers

Steve

Snow = amelanistic white-sided bulls
Ghost = hypomelanistic white-sided bulls
salt-and-pepper = white-sided bulls (Same gene, but slightly different color phases)

Sounds like you might have hypos het for amel and white-sided. If your white-sided/salt-and-pepper bull is het for hypo, you could get some ghosts, or hypo white-sideds.

KJ

>>Hi,
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>>I'm in the UK and have a lovely pair of four year old hypo bulls. When I bred them for the first time last year I got hypo and amelanistic babies plus some pure white babies with gorgeous faint yellow dorsal markings and patternless flanks and almost colourless eyes. (Snows, I guess?) The female has laid a clutch of twenty good looking eggs again this year...I'll try and post pics soon.
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>>However, I'm assuming these hypos are multiple het for snow and amelanistic. I have since bred my male to a salt and pepper female - what morphs are likely to result? Is the salt and pepper a genetic trait (down the anery line?) - am I right in thinking I may get ghosts from this breeding?
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>>Cheers
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>>Steve