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Breeders => General Breeder Chat => Topic started by: heiwa on June 11, 2010, 04:43:29 PM
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I saw a beige color baby from my friend which the color is really light, and the sire is a hetero pink white and the dam is a hetero beige.
According to the color mutation, there should be 25% chance of hetero beige and 12.5% chance of homo beige.
And I have found an article saying that for a homo beige, the eyes should have a ring around the pupil, while the hetero beige should be very solid color.
I have both homo beige and hetero beige, when I examinate their eyes, I can't sure the difference the article is saying.
Anyone have a better way to examinate between homo and hetero when they are still babies?
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i could be way off here but....
i thought one meant the parents were the same color and the other one meant the parents were two different colors.. as for which one is which.. oopps forgot.. hmmm homo for parents same colors and hetero for parents two different colors..
am i wrong guys please correct me if i am ..htanks.
jean
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Thanks jmdebb, but for the percentage of the outcome of chinchilla coor mutation, I know about that.
What I want to know is - is there any visual evaluation on the chin baby can tell the true with a high confidence??
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Hetero is short for Heterozygous meaning it only carriers one gene. A hetero beige only recieved one beige gene when it was born. Homo is short for homozygous meaning 2 genes. I homo beige received 1 beige gene from each of its parents so it has 2 beige genes. Which is why both parents must be beige to produce a beige baby. Each parent only has a 50% chance of passing on the beige gene.
Typically the homo beige is lighter but now there are some really light hetero beiges so you can't go on color. Homo beiges do have a noticable blue ring in the eye in good light. The whole eye is also much lighter. Hetero beige eyes can look almost black if their isn't good light in the room. If yours doesn't have a blue ring it was mislabeled and is not a homo beige.
Another trait of homo beiges is that they will never produce a standard colored kit. Every baby born to a homo beige get the beige gene and will be beige (or a variation of beige such as pink white if bred to a white ... ect)
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oops sorry i misunderstood.. :blush2: