Looks like Pewters to me. But at that stage of the game, anything is possible in there. I've had LOTS of projects ongoing that combined Charcoal and Lavender, and as best I could tell, Charcoal appeared to completely overpower Lavender. Heck, when Anerythrism combined with Charcoal, it was pretty darn difficult to tell what the heck you had looking at newly hatched babies. Throw Lavender, hypo AND Blood Red in there as well, and HAH! Good luck figuring them out.
Heck, you don't think this sort of stuff DIDN'T drive me crazy, now did you? I felt like I was retiring just a half step in front of the guys with nets to throw over me and strap me into a straight jacket. Most of you really don't have any idea what is in store for you with all of these genes now floating around that will be getting combined. Heck, the last couple years of breeding, I don't believe I had very many adults at all that were simply one gene carriers. And quite likely many were at least triple hets. Many were visuals of one trait and het for two or three other genes. Quite honestly, when I found out that people weren't willing to pay any more for triple or quad het animals, I stopped labelling them for more than two genes completely. And normally would only label them for one het gene, no matter how many genes they were really definite hets for. It was a waste of my time trying to keep up with all the labels I needed each hatching season, and besides, I could only fit so much on those labels anyway. Heck I had a folder of sheets of labels that was about three inches THICK! So people quite often (probably MOST of the time) wound up getting bonus genes in nearly all the snakes I was sending out.
And heck, I stopped worrying about "possible" hets a long time ago. Nearly everything I was working on was possible het for nearly everything else I was working with anyway. That's what made hatching time so much fun around here. I really NEVER knew what was going to hatch out. You really have no idea how many interesting animals I bulked out at the end simply because I didn't have a clue about what they really were and knew there was no way I would ever be able to find out. I just put them in 100 lot bags and figured whoever got them could try to figure it out. How the heck could I have sold them otherwise if I couldn't even put a label on them because I didn't KNOW what they were?
So yeah, there really is NO telling simply by LOOKING at the babies hatching out these days what they are. Only by doing test breeding of them as adults will you be able to really find out. Think about that for a bit and consider what THAT means concerning the babies from those test breedings...... :crazy02:
