If you breed a graziani pastel with any of the other lines of pastels, ie. bell, nerd lemon, etc. will you still produce supers??? post or email me your thoughts njames78@yahoo.com
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Are Graziani and Bell Pastels compatible???
njames78
Dec 23, 2005 10:36 PM
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RandyRemington
Dec 26, 2005 10:52 PM
The general concusses when this sort of question has come up in the past is "yes", any two “regular” pastel lines can be crossed to potentially produce a “super”.
The problem is that even if it turned out that two different lines of pastel where different genes the combo might still look "super". With dominant type mutations you can't be sure just by looking at the first cross. For example, cinnamon pastel and pastel jungle produced the super looking pewter but eggs that hatched in 2005 proved they are different mutations of different genes. Even if two different pastel lines turned out to be different mutations of the SAME gene (alleles) the "super" produced by crossing them would have no normal copies of the common pastel gene and could produce no normals. However, if two pastel lines turned out to be different mutations of DIFFERENT genes then the apparent "super" from the combined effect of both genes when crossing them could produce some normals when bred to a normal. I haven't heard of this happing though but I’m not sure anyone would talk about it if it did.
