Snow Traits

[ajveachster]

This is somewhat random, but want to know if anybody else has noticed some of these same things. I'm sure somebody will point to an old thread that discusses all of this, but my quick search didn't really pull up anything.

It seems to me that our super snows tend to grow much more slowly than any of our other morphs, including regular Mack Snows.

It also seems to be that none of the super snows have gotten as big as our other morphs.

We have also noticed that a higher percentage of our snows have gotten the calcium pockets behind their front legs that our other morphs, the super snows being even more apt to get them than the regular snows.

Anybody else notice any of these things, or maybe some other trait with a particular morph (I'm talking about traits that aren't descriptive of the morph itself-like albinos having red eyes)?

 

[acpart]

Some of my snows, especially the super snows do grow more slowly. At the moment I have 3 Mack snows that are small for age. One of them finally started taking off (born 10/10 and now weighs 16 grams). The other 2 are still growing slowly: the clutchmate weighs 7 grams and one born 8/27 weighs 12 grams. They continue to do well, though. I had a supersnow female that never got much above 42 grams. On the other hand I have supersnow male that gets up to about 90 grams in the summers.

Aliza