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I was just wondering if anybody has produced, or is the process of trying to produce, an axanthic pied...the idea came to me tonight and I'd love to do it. But since I don't have pieds or axanthics yet, I'll have to settle for seeing it.

Chris
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I think people are owrking on double homozygous morphs that enhance the color , not remove it.

I saw a picture that sure looked like an axanthic piebald once. If I remember right it was from an importer in Germany. It seems unlikely for a wild caught animal to be homozygous for two different recessive genes (piebald and axanthic) so perhaps it was just an old axanthic looking pied.

I mean the odds of finding a Dbl. Homo. animal in the wild would have to be a bazillion gazillion to one. I know a couple of real BIG BREEDERS that thought they had Axanthics which proved out to be normal. I'm sure this animal is just an Axanthic-y looking Pied. Maybe Stefan will prove us wrong someday but I can't see it happening. I'm sure someone is working on that cross - a neonate Ax. Pied would be a screamer!!

It does seem unlikely. But then look at the Pine Island corn that founded the charcoal line. She was at least het for the other type of anerythristic. Or is all that stuff still looking nice and neat? When I was last following corns I wasn't able to find any for sure cases of a blizzard that wasn't at least het for the original anerythristic so maybe there was some more convoluted explanation. And then there was NERD’s imported caramel male that was apparently het for albino too. If neither case turns out to be an allele situation then you have two cases of wild caught animals with three morph genes. Of course even then four morph genes (a double homozygous) would be exponentially more rare.