Hi peeps

just wanting to know about beardies and their breeding traits - I have no intention of breeding beardies but would like to know nevertheless

If you breed normal phase then you get normals - but when you start to look at colour morphs and breeding are percentages of offspring still normal......for example if you breed a citrus to a snow are the babies cloloured similar to the parents or will some still be normal phase......

I know with leos when you put 2 certain types together then you can get percentages for certain colours aswell as a percentage of them turning out normal........does this extend to beardies

Sorry as I don't think I have explained it too well.......I know what I'm thinking but typing it down is not as srtaight forward

cheers

no idea mate but there might me something about it in the genetics forum down the page..

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Beardies don't have the "Mendelian Genes" that leos, corns, royals etc have. Colours are instead controlled by a lot of genes, that individually make little differences, but when you have a lot of "red" genes or "yellow" genes, you start to notice the differences. A lot of beardies are het for a lot of those genes.

What this means is that if you cross a Red to a Yellow, the babies would be expected to show traits from both parents, but to a lesser extent - e.g. less yellow than one parent, along with less red than the other, but still with a bit of both. Crossing an intense Red with an intense Yellow would give you somewhat duller Orange/Reds.

The only genes that I can think of off the top of my head that are Dom/Rec/Co-Dom etc are one of the forms of Hypomelanism/Clear Nails (there is also selectively bred Hypo, just to confuse things) and Albinism.

Red/Blood Red is a lot of selective breeding for a lot of "Red" genes; Yellow is selective breeding for a lot of "Yellow" genes. "Snow" is a form of Hypomelanism (either Mendelian or SB), coupled with selective breeding to get rid of any other colour genes, and to reduce the patterning.

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Ok thanks for that....nice and simple just like leo genetics............erm....not

so is that like humans? two white people = white babies, 2 blacks = black baby, white and black = half caste.. etc

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It's that type of thing, with many genes involved.

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