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Dark Charcoals

Shiari

Shiari

Blutterer
Honestly, considering all the males I've had to breed with Gabby have been extremely light colored, I'm extremely pleased with how these two gals are turning out, especially when compared to their mother at similar ages.

Gabrielle (2013 charcoal het hypo amel diffused)

age: 4m

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age: 1yr

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age: 2yr

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age: adult

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Graphite (2019 charcaol het diffused 50% hypo amel lavender)

age: 1m

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age: 9m

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age: 1.5yr

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Larune (2020 charcoal het motley 66% hypo 50% amel diffused)

age: 3m

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age: 7m

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age: 1 year

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hypnoctopus said:
Interesting how Gabrielle went lighter and then darker!
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Yeah, this line seems to do that. I'm just extremely pleased that Graphite is darkening up so well now. She was stunning as a baby and then that 9 month picture had me going "ewwww" XD I'm also glad she's finally starting to chill out, personality-wise so I am going to keep her after all.
 
Thank you! I poked Don about them since the matriarch was from SMR lines and he was uh.... impressed by them. O_O
And he said that he does still have some lines that throw dark babies so I'm to pester him up through hatching time so he can set aside a good male for me!
 
The female pewter I still have shed finally.

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She's nice, but not as dark as Graphite. Here's a pic with both of them.

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Schorl will be more uniformly colored as an adult, but Graphite is darker in the ground color as well as the saddles.
 
She just gets better and better with each shed, and at only 2 years old she should get quite a bit darker still.
 

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Got any updates? Would love to see your dark beauties now.

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Due to an accident, I sadly lost my Graphite girl which was a major blow, but the odds gods were kind enough to give me a female just as dark this year, as well a phenomenal pair of pewters. I'll also get some updated pictures of Larune and add in and she's going to get fairly near her mom's color and is a half-sibling to this crop.

Onyx: 0.1 charcoal masque het diffused 50% hypo, lavender, amel

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Jet: 1.0 Pewter 50% hypo, lavender, amel - his level of diffusion was a very big surprise as neither the pewter grandmother nor the pewter father have particularly good diffusion

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Marquina: 0.1 Pewter 50% hypo, lavender, amel - some interesting colors going on with this girl. She should end up very much like her mother.

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Some updates-

Larune, 3 years old now and probably at full color. Her sire was the palest silver charcoal motley so I'm pleased with her color considering what I was working with.

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Onyx, 0.1 charcoal masque and far exceeding my wildest hopes

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Coal 1.0 charcoal masque. I wasn't planning on keeping back 2 males, but with how he's turning out he needs to stay

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Marquina 0.1 pewter. The diffused gene seems to be really lightening the babies in comparison.

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Jet 1.0 pewter and the lightest colored of my holdbacks. But that diffusion is :dancer:

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They're all beautiful. Onyx is incredibly dark! Thank you for posting these updates. Looking forward to seeing the continuation of this project.

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An update now that everyone is a year old!

Onyx

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Jet

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Marquina

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Coal

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Plus the 2 as-of-yet unnamed lighter females that I decided to keep

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The 'lightening phase' is well underway with some of these. Jet however has stayed exactly the same color the entire time. In another year, if they follow the pattern of their older siblings, they should start darkening considerably.
 
Ooh, Jet is my favorite! They're looking great!

My ice tessera went through a similar lightening and then darkening phase. It's not something I have experienced before, but I absolutely adore his darkness now, so I'm glad he changed.
 
They're very lovely. Jet has wonderful diffusion. I really like unnamed female in the top pic, also. Do those two have names yet?

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