Pam (or anyone else who knows)

[TinysMom]

I was looking at a breeder's page and she had a black lionhead and a sable point lionhead that bred - and she wound up with:

2 blacks

1 blue

1 blue tort

Genetically, how can that happen?I guess I'm trying to figure out how she got the blue & blue tort...

Peg

 

[pamnock]

TinysMom wrote:

I was looking at a breeder's page and she had a blacklionhead and a sable point lionhead that bred - and she wound up with:

2 blacks

1 blue

1 blue tort

Genetically, how can that happen?I guess I'm trying to figure out how she got the blue & blue tort...

Peg

To get the blue, the black and sable pointboth carried thedilute (blue) gene recessively. The black would also have tocarry the non-extension gene to produce tort (sable point is anon-extension color, so that was the only gene it could havecontributed "e").

The litter helps, in part, to genotype the parents:

The black would be aa B_ C_ Dd Ee and the sable point would be aa B_ cchl_ Dd ee

The only unknowns are whether either carries chocolate, and what theycarry in the lower c series. Because no lower C colors wereproduced in this particular litter, we might assume that the black ishomozygous CC (but a litter of 4 really isn't enough to give a solidstatistical analysis).

You could test either for chocolate by breeding them to chocolate or lilac and could test their c series by breeding to REW.



Pam

 

[samandshawn]

Don't know how you remember all thisPam notthat it means anything to me. lol

 

[pamnock]

LOL Sometimes I can't even remember myown name. Continual study and using the infofrequently makes it easier to remember.

I still study the rabbit standards contiually. There are over800 points of information --and breeders expect you to knowit all by heart when judging. Other judges poke fun at my dogearred Standard -- leaves no doubt that it'sfrequentlystudied and referred to. LOL

We use rote memorization extensively for our homeschooling and it alsohelps me to be able to speak on any given topic on rabbits for a couplehours without having to refer to notes

It's amazing the amount of information my kids process daily ascompared to the limited amount of information they had to process whilepublic schooling. The difference is significant.

Of course, when you cram so much information, I believe you need tobalance equally with physical activity or you will literally goinsane :shock:



Pam

 

[CMiska]

Wow Pam, excellant info. Lol at notremembering your own name, I think if given the right situation I wouldforget where Ilived (thinkingthis looks really good)