Pied-Sided Bloodred (SMR vs. McDonald lines)

[Jeff Linkchorst]

Just a "my 2 cents2-notice:

I thought Walter just wanted to share information about pieds and stuff. I'm a bit shocked and wonder why there's so much anger in this thread. Nowhere, while reading, I had the opinion that he wants to corrupt the SMR piedsided line anywise :shrugs:


either it's up to me or most people got him horrible wrong. :shrugs::shrugs::shrugs:

I have to agree with you on this.

I think maybe people have been stuck in the house to much this winter, and everyone is getting a bit stir crazy. :shrugs:

 

[Walter Smith]

Just a note:

If anyone that read my original post and reads into it that I was trying smear, put down or make the McD line of Pied-Sideds superior or better than the SMR line, then I apologize for the way it was worded/written for it to appear that way.

In no way, shape or form is that my intent. I have already stated the one and only reason (contrary to some's belief) for my posting.

Thanks, Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[Walter Smith]

I have to agree with you on this.

I think maybe people have been stuck in the house to much this winter, and everyone is getting a bit stir crazy. :shrugs:

Thanks for your post Jeff, I appreciate it.

Walter,
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[Walter Smith]

"For the Record"

My point is that some people wrote or called last night and today to say that they inferred from Walter’s statement [Back in the 90's I started the Pied-Sided Bloodred project that is responsible for the (SMR) Pied-Sided Bloodreds that are out there now and it actually started with a Pied-Sided Bloodred male that I aquired from Brad McDonald.] that my p/s line would not exist if not for him breeding my p/s female to the McDonald male. As you can see, if I had kept back babies from any of her previous seven years of production, I’d have discovered the “mutation?” without the McDonald male. In fact, the greatest tragedy in all this is the confusion caused by the non-allelic “similarity” between the original animals. Hence, his comment that the McDonald partner of the original pairing being “responsible” for the (SMR) Pied-Sided Bloodreds is totally false.

What Don has stated here is correct and I would like to clear this up. The SMR line of P/S came from his female. If you were to read this in Don's entire post, you will see that the original McD male was not "responsible" for it.

I quote "responsible" because the use of that word, on my part, was a poor choice of word to use here. I guess I should have used "due to". What I meant by the word "responsible" was because this male was used to start the project, helped in the findings of the SMR P/S trait. Now, what I mean by that is, because this original breeding was done with the McD male, it allowed for the SMR P/S to be found, not that it was "responsible" for it.

As Don's mentions, if he were to have used any one of his females sons bred back to her, he would have discovered the trait himself, and it would have been "due to" that male breeding her.

If anyone took my writing that the McD male was the one that created the SMR line of P/S, by the way it was written, I apologize for my mistake and the misleading way I worded that.
I did not intentionally mean for it to sound that way, nor was it my intention for it to be perceived that way.

I would like to apologize to Don for this mistake and poor choice of words I used in my post. Also, to apologize to Rob & Louise because of them being the second people to have marketed the SMR line as an extension of Don's findings.

Again, I did not intentionally try to take anything away from the SMR line or try to intentionally make it seem the McD line was the creator of the SMR line..........Sorry for my mistake.

Walter,
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[vetusvates]

Walter, I acknowledge that I am still a relative newbie to the community and to corn morphs, but I did want to say a word or two.
I was pleased to see the thread was prompted by Stormy, and confirmed to be so by that party, as an answer to some pied questions.

I have read and re-read your OP numerous times, and IMHO, still see nothing worse than perhaps a less than precise choice of words.
I also sense a little frustration at your pied-sided snakes not selling, but hey, we all can't be Torsten, LOL, and I have definitely had to hang my head and turn away from the classifieds on numerous occasions. You and Rob, both, sure post some gems there.

And finally, I am glad Don turned up to relate such a detailed narrative history. Fascinating. I'd love to hear more from him, but he himself explained why he isn't here to post much.

Thank you for the thread, Walter. I enjoyed it, and learned much.