My female buttercorn laid her first clutch of 18 obviously healthy. 5 days ago the first hatchling came out....now i have removed 4 hatchlings and seen one with the eggs. The four hatchling that i've removed seems to be buttercorn or some kind of amel (hard to tell exactly before first shed). The fifth hatchling loked lika a anerythiristic. But here's the question, the possible fathers are: normal corn, miami phase and butter corn. I've seen the normal and the miami mate with her, but not the butter male she lives with. If the butter corn is the father all should be butter corns, if the normal or miami is the father all should be normal (if there isn't a hidden gene in one of them for example: amelanism). I think that there is 2 or more father to my clutch. I'll just have to wait until the rest hatches and then check them out after first shed. But is I said, it's been 5 days since the first one pipped..i think that the eggs might have had one degree difference and will hatch with a grater distance of time.....all eggs look fine and i just hope that they'll hatch soon!
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How long will it take do u think?
- Thread starter Isak
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CornCrazy
What's one more???
It will be hard to know which one fathered which baby. It is possible for all three of them to be the father of some of the babies since all three possibly bred her. The only way you will know on some of them is if they are obviously butter (unless your normal or miami is het butter). Otherwise, there is no way to tell until the babies grow up and breeding trials are done.
yeah
yeah i know....i'll have to check more careful after they shed the first time....i think it's easier to decide then. But it's gotta be at least 2 fathers in this cluth.....if one is anery and the others are albinos. But i dont know wich one of them.......The butter corn laid a second cluth today!!!! exactly after i've posted the last message...this clutch must be 100% butter beacuse the butter female has not been with the other two normals since the first time......but maby if she can supply sperm from the normals until now and lay a second clutch....i don't think so but i think it could happen.
Thanks for the reply!
yeah i know....i'll have to check more careful after they shed the first time....i think it's easier to decide then. But it's gotta be at least 2 fathers in this cluth.....if one is anery and the others are albinos. But i dont know wich one of them.......The butter corn laid a second cluth today!!!! exactly after i've posted the last message...this clutch must be 100% butter beacuse the butter female has not been with the other two normals since the first time......but maby if she can supply sperm from the normals until now and lay a second clutch....i don't think so but i think it could happen.
Thanks for the reply!