Butter bloodred clutch - some crazy things happening!!

So my clutch from an amel het caramel blood and a caramel het amel blood hatched over the weekend. I got some very unexpected results! When they where pipping I saw some solid white noses and I got very exciting thinking I was going to have some killer bloodreds, nope. I was wrong. Blizzards hatched out instead. I also got (what I think) is an amber as well.

So they're both het charcoal and hypo as well (though I didn't get any charcoals). So far only one blood has hatched, but its a butter blood, so I'm excited. There are three more waiting to come out, a butter, caramel, and normal. Maybe one of them will be a blood too.

Crappy shots, but still wanted to share.

Butter blood head:


Mix of them:


Close up of mix. Can someone confirm that the lighter one is an amber? Looks not red enough to just be a hypo to me.

nice man, real nice. got to love surprises

krtemt said:

nice man, real nice. got to love surprises

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The hypo part I'm excited about, but the charcoal I'd rather not have in there at all. I don't know if any homozygous charcoal caramels have been produced, but if it interacts with caramel like anery a does then it throws a big monkey wrench in things. Oh well, I should be pumped that I even got a butter blood.

Now that's a fun clutch to ID. Surprises are always interesting. Cute pippies too.

~Katie

Maybe it's my monitor, but I don't see any bloodred heads in the photos.:shrugs:
Great looking clutch though!

tsthompson said:

Maybe it's my monitor, but I don't see any bloodred heads in the photos.:shrugs:
Great looking clutch though!

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She doesn't have a perfect skull pattern, but is the very first one. I've seen bloods that had heads like hers, plus her belly is 100% clear. She's definitely not the best example of the morph, but from what I've seen of the caramal based bloods, they're not that great, will probably have to do some line breeding to get it great.

I would expect to see some amels & fires in that clutch too.

Yeah, there are amels, but you're right you'd expect more bloods. I'd also expect more hypos, but only got one. I got three blizzards, but no charcoals...

The odds aren't lining up as one would predict either way...

Any chance of another male having fathered a few of those babies, even from last year's breeding (if any)?

Great Clutch Matthew. A Sulphur is something I hope to hatch next season. You had some nice hets at work there including the unknowns. Again, great clutch. :cheers:
Jay

:bowdown:

Susan said:

Any chance of another male having fathered a few of those babies, even from last year's breeding (if any)?

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I'm wondering the same thing. Not that I wouldn't be excited having such results!

Have you considered the possibility one of those blizzards being a whiteout?!!

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Susan said:

Any chance of another male having fathered a few of those babies, even from last year's breeding (if any)?

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Noe..gr said:

:bowdown:


I'm wondering the same thing. Not that I wouldn't be excited having such results!

Have you considered the possibility one of those blizzards being a whiteout?!!

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They were both virgins. The male was an '06 and the female an '05. And she was only paired with the one male.

And I've thought about that the blizzards could be a whiteout, heck maybe I hit the jackpot and its a quintuple homozygous animal: amel, caramel, charcoal, hypo, and blood!! :sidestep:

blueapplepaste said:

And I've thought about that the blizzards could be a whiteout, heck maybe I hit the jackpot and its a quintuple homozygous animal: amel, caramel, charcoal, hypo, and blood!! :sidestep:

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Wow your imagination is way better than mine! :crazy01: