BoidKeeper said:
This year I'm also going to produce a pair of hypos that will be het for motley and anery. From that pair I'm hoping for motley ghost and motley anery.
What other possibilites are there from those two pairing?
Thanks,
Trevor
If your hypos are from the same lines, chances are you'll produce all hypos... so no plain anery motleys. Here's the breakdown of offspring:
9/16 hypo
3/16 hypo motley
3/16 hypo anery (ghost)
1/16 hypo anery motley (ghost motley)
Has anyone produced one (hypo lav motley) yet?
I have a pair of corns that are het for motley, hypo and lavender so I'm hoping the odds are in my favour.
Haven't heard of them yet, but who knows if someone has a secret stash of them.
Your odds are 1/64 of producing a hypo lav motley from those parents. However, your odds of producing a double-or-better morph (hypo motley, hypo lav, lav motley, or hypo lav motley) are 10/64, which boils down to 1 in 6.4. This means there's a good chance of getting 1 or 2 in your first clutch. Any of the doubles will be 66% possible het for the third trait, so raise them up and breed them back to the parent. If it
is het for the third trait, you've then got a 1 in 16 chance per egg of producing hypo lav motleys.
Alternatively, you could breed two of the double-morphs together right away, and
if (a 4/9ths chance) they're both het for their respective third trait (say hypo motley het lav X hypo lav het motley for example) you'd then get 1 in 4 odds per egg of producing hypo lav motleys.
Obviously, in the long run, the best shot you have
(assuming you're not into keeping like 20 of the triple het females to breed) is to use the "back to parent" breeding to locate a male/female pair consisting of any two "double morph, and het for the third trait" and then breed those two to each other.
