Interesting breeding...GRAPHIC PICTURES

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I bred a normal male het ultra, possible het caramel and motley to a couple of different females this season. I bred him to a normal motley (possibly a striped motley) and to a butter. The male proved to be het caramel, and not het motley (or so I thought).

All of the babies from the first clutch with the motley were normals...not a single motley in the bunch. The motley mom laid a second clutch with 5 good eggs in it. The second clutch started hatching a couple of days ago. TWO beautiful striped babies emerged. Then yesterday there was another striped baby! The other two eggs are strange, as well. They ended up not hatching so I cut them open to look at what was inside. I HAD to know if they were also striped. Well...they were BOTH twins (one motely looking set and one striped set)! It is sad that they didn't make it (well at least the ones that were not conjoined). One set was twisted together and you could barely tell it was two except for the fact that it had two tails and a weird almost head looking thing dangling from it.

The other egg had 2 separate babies. One was much larger and almost fully formed. The other one must have died first.

SO...anyone ever had 2 totally different looking clutches from the same breeding before? I know ALL of the babies belong to this pairing because the female wasn't with any other male...AND this was her first time breeding. It really blew my mind...she stored up the striped sperm for the second clutch! LOL

By the way...Connie and Chuck...the dad is one you produced (Wulfgar ACR #408). Any chance Taeoo was het stripe instead of motley? Could his "motley" parent have been a striped-motley? What are the chances that the male ended up being het for ultra, caramel, and stripe (or motley)? That amazes me!

I'll get pics of the striped babies as soon as possible!