How is it possible?

[fl_orchidslave]

My second to last clutch hatched an oddball. The mother is a sunglow raptor, father is diablo blanco. One egg hatched a white baby with two yellow spots on it's back, the other is black and white- and looks exactly like a mack snow. No snow in the bloodlines. Also these two eggs hatched 10 days apart and I really didn't expect the second to hatch at all after a week. How can there be a black and white baby??? Positive there's no egg mix up!

 

[Russellm0704]

Pics or it didn't happen

 

[fl_orchidslave]

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[artgecko]

The most reasonable explanation would be a mixup with the eggs. But if you are sure that didn't happen, you may have uncovered a mutation.
How many albinos have you had from this pair?

 

[Dimidiata]

You lucky duck.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

5 babies total, one with albino eyes, 3 with solid red eyes, the snow has dark eyes with little pupils. One egg left to hatch. I wish I could question an egg mixup, but no, I'm positive.

This was the first year breeding for both, I bought them as babies last year.

 

[Dimidiata]

Hes like an antisunglow lol. A moonglow? XD. Let us BEG the leo lords you just found a new morph.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

I really don't know what to think of it but now I have to hold back the entire group. The DB was for sale but certainly not now.

 

[JordanAng420]

Holy crap! That is most definately looking like a mack snow. At first I thought maybe it was premature or just not fully developed, but I don't think so.

So does this mean that mack snow is not necessarily co-dominant? I am so confused. But I bet not as confused as you are!

Looking foreward to seeing this little ones progress.

 

[acpart]

Did you get the parents as adults? There seem to be 2 issues: mack snow and non-albino.

The last time someone on the forum produced a non-albino from 2 albino parents, it seemed, if I'm not mistaken, that one of the parents had a hidden gene for a different albino strain.

It's possible that one of the parents, especially if you bought them as adults, is a Mack snow but no longer looks like one.

That's all I can think of.

Aliza

 

[fl_orchidslave]

The Diablo and Sunglow are pictured above and were purchased as babies, not even juvs yet. They look the same now as they did then except both have red snake eyes instead of solid as when they were littles.

 

[lillith]

Maybe your DB is a mack DB?

 

[Thorgecko707]

Could it be a Mack blizzard eclipse het Tremper?

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Updated pics are available on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.312639755413764.84810.273060589371681&type=1. The largest babe in the bottom row is a confirmed male (TSM), others were TSF and too small to confirm yet. Mysti, the snow, along with two other girls will be bred later in the next season, along with a different pairing of the parents to see what can be proved out. Of course the lil boy is a holdback. At this point, my suspicion is the Diablo may be a super raptor instead. We shall see next year! Whatever the outcome turns out to be, the babes are gorgeous and I'm happy with the surprise.