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A few Mexmex youngsters

jlassiter Jan 25, 2006 08:49 PM

I can't wait to raise these up and see what they will produce. One male has some nice orange coloration. The others have the nice splitbands that I hope will lead to some speckling with some selective line breeding......
John Lassiter

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mexicanamak Jan 26, 2006 04:42 PM

They are all superb! I grow more and more fond of these sankes every day it seems. The first two have great saddle color, the second one in particular. And very cool bullseyes, that's a special one right there... must be the male you mention?

I think the first two are also well on their way to becoming the start of a fantastic speckled mex mex project John.

Mike

jlassiter Jan 26, 2006 06:41 PM

Mike,
You know you back up a theory that some have about Mexmex.
Robert Hansen and a few others have asked me if I noticed that my male mexmex looked nicer than the females I keep.
The answer is always yes.....

The first two pictured are the males and the other two are the females.

BTW.....All were produced by Mark Kenderdine (Crimsonking) in FL.
I hope that Mark never stops breeding these.....I also would appreciate it if he would work on a speckled project with them.....
John Lassiter

crimsonking Jan 26, 2006 10:21 PM

..how am I supposed to work on the speckled ones if you have all the babies???
By the way, here's grandma full of eggs years back.
grandpa was a textbook mex-mex.
And here's the parents of most of them. They are both lighter in ground color than it appears, which is what I was working on at one time....
Hope all is well with you and the family John.
:Mark

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jlassiter Jan 27, 2006 04:02 PM

Great pics Mark....
And the family and I are doing better now, I think.......

Share some pics of the ones YOU held back for breeding......I know you got some nice ones.....You only let me steal that one nice male from you......LOL

John Lassiter

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