Interesting day at the office!

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Belly Shot

Well I guess you might say she has some checkering, but there is deffinately something strange about this Lavender.

Hey, Maybe she is a Lavender Motley Het Bloodred and hypo. LOL What ever she is, I am glad she is mine. It will be an interesting clutch to go through.

 

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First eggs of the year!

It was so nice to wake up this morning to my first clutch of eggs this year. The anticipation was killing me.

This Hurricane Butter Motley was bred to the same and laid 12 good eggs.

It is always interesting to see who lays first. My Arizona Mt. Kings were first for many years in a row and then my hets for Striped Opals, and now this girl.

 

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Striped Lavender X Het Striped Opal

I was really nervous about this clutch of eggs since I was using an unproven, small male, but he came through big time. 17 fertile eggs and no plugs.

They came about 37 days after the first breeding right on time. A photo of the mating was posted in the beginning of this thread.

So far, I have used this male on 8 females, so I am very releaved that he is taking care of his girls.

 

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This Amel Motley laid 16 eggs today as well. She was bred to a male from my Red Amel Motley line that I produce Candy Canes from. They are both het for snow as well.

This was a nice way to start out the laying season. Three clutches of eggs from some interesting combinations and not an infertile egg in the bunch.

 

[Edmund]

Definitely an exciting day for you. It must feel like Christmas morning to wake up and have those eggs, or maybe it's more like Easter Congratulations!

 

[camus]

best luck with the eggs ...congratulations

rgds

camus

 

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Striped Lavender poss amel X Striped het Snow

Today was another one of those days that you remember. I have been raising some very nice female Striped het Snow and Amel Stripes from my 2002 hatch to breed to my Striped Lavenders. I had held them up a month longer than the other breeders in the fall of 2003 and kept them down a month longer as well, because I was trying to get just a little more size on them.

They were finally receptive to the males today. As it turned out, I was able to breed my older females to the young Striped Lavenders first and then run a second group of new young females through them as well. This was not my original intention, but sometimes things accidentally fall into place.

Photo: Striped Lavender X Striped het Snow. I almost missed this one. The came apart right after the photos or were coming apart during the photos. There was evidence of a mating left behind.

 

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Striped Lavender poss amel X Striped het Snow

Different male with different female, same results.

 

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Opal Poss het Striped X Striped Amel

These guys were hooked up but, were finished when I got my camera. There was evidence that the male had done his job in the bottom of the cage.

I am really keeping my fingers crossed that this guy is het striped. He has the stripe down the middle of his belly like the het bloods we have been talking about. I looked through all of my possible het stripes and about 2 out of 3 of them have the stripe down the middle of their belly. Hum, I wonder!?

 

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Opal Bloods?

Well, this is probably the long way to go about it, but it is possible. Lavender Bloods will be nice. I wonder if you can get Aztec Lavender Bloods?

I haven’t caught this guy at it yet, but he has several females gravid. I have been waiting for this partial Aztec Lavender het amel female to be receptive and she finally gave in. This was a very good ending to a great day.

I really like the striping on the old style Bloods. This guy is ancient!

 

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You know, the deed.

Well, the bedding isn't blurry.:awcrap:

 

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Results from page three

Striped Lavender poss het amel X Striped Amel.

Last night I found this female had laid 17 good eggs. My little Striped Lavender male has come though again. So far, both clutches that have been laid from him have been 100% fertile.

 

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Here is his other clutch from page 1

Striped Lavender poss het amel X het Striped Opal. Laid on 4-27-04.

 

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Re: Belly Shot

Well I guess you might say she has some checkering, but there is deffinately something strange about this Lavender.

Hey, Maybe she is a Lavender Motley Het Bloodred and hypo. LOL What ever she is, I am glad she is mine. It will be an interesting clutch to go through.

Joe, this one definitely looks non-motley to me. Even dorsally. It looks like what I call a psuedomotley.

It seems like there's something subtle (but obvious once you know what you're looking for) about the dorsal patterns of motleys, and this one doesn't have it in the least. (It's not possible to describe properly in words, it's one of those "you know it when you see it" things, if that makes any sense.)

Also, keep in mind that there appears to be dimorphism between male and female hypo lavenders, where the females don't seem to be affected the same way as the males by the hypo gene. I'm guessing that's what you've got.

As for the ventral pattern, IMO that is a function of the "Aztecing" influence.

Just my guesses on it... my money's on "non-motley."

 

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Anwsers?

Here are the results of the breeding between Casper (Lav poss het striped opal) X Het Striped Opal (Mother of “Sunset” Lavender) on page one. Hopefully, this breeding will start to answer some questions about the unknown cause of these unusual looking Pink Lavenders.

 

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A new mix of genes.

Thanks to digital photograph, we can catch a lot of the exciting moments of our breeding season. I was really hoping to get fertile eggs from this girl which was bred to an Ice male. (Ice X Anery Striped) =Anery het Striped Ice or Anery het Striped Lava if you prefer. She laid 12 eggs and 2 plugs.

I thought this would be a good match up so my odds of producing a Striped Ice would be reduced to 1 in 16 instead of 1 in 64, if I would have used a Normal Striped female.

I am hoping to get a Snow Motley bred to an Ice for a second clutch for the same reason. I have a Lava poss anery and amel bred to a Snow Motley, which will enable me to produce a Lava Motley in 1 in 16, but to get to the goal of an Ice Motley the above match up would be better.

If the Lava poss turns out to be het anery, then I will get my Anerys het Ice Motleys, but I won't know until they are born. A second set of Anerys het Ice Motleys would be a good idea and I could breed unrelated, or non-siblings together instead of directly in breeding.

 

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Another new mix of genes.

This Sunkissed female laid today. She was bred to a Snow Motley. I haven't heard of any Sunkissed Molteys or Ghost Sunkissed, so I may have something new going here. It will be a fun project in either case.

 

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Lava Okeetee X Amel Lava?`

This female that I suspect is an amel Lava laid today. She was bred to a Lava Okeetee, so if she is an Amel Lava, I will get all Lavas het amel. The male I bred her to has the same faded blotches as she does, but in the Lava morph, so it will be nice to see if this match produces some more of this look.

 

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Results from page three

This female Het Striped Opal laid 20 eggs today. They were all fertile! She was bred to one of my male Striped Lavender poss het amel which I caught in the act on page three of this thread.

She is the first female from this project to break the 20 mark. They have been a pleasure to work with from the very beginning. Fertility has been almost perfect and all of the females have double clutched beginning in their very first year.

It is going to be so nice to have known hets this year not to mention many more Striped Lavenders and Striped Opals. It has been so frustrating getting clutches of almost all possible hets the last two years. Not that I am complaining or anything, but I think you know what I mean. I appreciate what I have produced so far.

 

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Opal Poss het Striped X Striped Amel

I caught this guy in the act today with a different female. I am really high on this guy. It is going to be very nice to work with his offspring since he has as much pink coloration as a lot of snows.

The double homos which include lavender are much more fun to work with than the anerys. The anerys have given us a lot of great morphs, but I really like the color of a lavender over an anery. If I have to look at a het give me a Lavender het opal or Amel Striped het Opal over an Anery het snow any day.