Thanks Olivia. 
Yeah, I haven’t really counted, but since a couple DON’T look super-Masque, maybe only one parent is. Dad sure looked liked it, but mom’s a Whiteout, so it’s hard to tell. She definitely looked Masque as a baby.
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In the old days, Bloodreds were problem starters. But with these two, all 18 in their clutch have eaten, most on the day they shed.
I don’t know much about pied, so maybe someone who does can tell me if I’m hallucinating low expression in these two and others.
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No refusals is as good as it gets! I have had a few this year, very few until the last clutch. Gotta get some of them with the program. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
I haven’t worked with Pied either. Far be it from me to sayanyone is hallucinating, lol, but I am unsure what you’re seeing. I see pretty babies.
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Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the eating! The pied thing isn’t so important. There’s one that’s more obvious than others, but I can’t remember which or find pics. 
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I think those guys are stunning!
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Thanks! Yeah, I really like them too. I didn’t intend on buying the Dad from Carol at Low Belly, but when I saw his baby pic I had to have him. The super-masque tesseras in the clutch look a lot like him.
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I hope I don’t come across as judgy or accusatory, because that is not at ALL my intent. I’m just asking for educational purposes.
Do you know what caused the high rate of kinking from that one clutch? If you didn’t notice any incubation issues, could it be linked to the close genetics in a clutchmate x clutchmate pairing?
Again, no hate directed your way, just wondering your thoughts on that
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Yeah, I’d guess some sort of genetic incompatibility issue. The numbers were frankly too high to be some combined recessive hets from the healthy parents. I’d’ve preferred “only” 25% culled!
I’ve done many clutchmate pairings, and the only thing like this I’ve seen was with lavenders in the old days. Some weren’t even clutchmates, but probably closely related. And again, the numbers were higher than healthy seeming parents should produce by combining deleterious recessive hets.
But in the end, I don’t know. The clutch was intended to flush out a lot of phets, but there were no happy surprises. So they won’t be tested together again.
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You don’t know until you try, and learn from that………
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“Trying is the first step towards failure.”
—Homer Simpson
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It does look like a few of them have some pied on the tips of their nose. Beautiful babies too!
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Thanks! That’s what I’m seeing too. And maybe some flecks on the sides of some.
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Ohhh. I see the lack of color on a few noses. I don’t think of that as necessarily Pied, though. I’ve had a fair few Diffused babies like that. I suppose it’s possible that they were carrying Pied, but it’s not a trait I have ever thought was in my collection.
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Yeah, I don’t understand pied heritability anyway!
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I love the cute little face!
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Yay! Can’t wait to see what comes out of these eggs lol.
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Finally! I’m looking forward to seeing what you get.
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Hope they are all healthy! I know you’ve been anticipating this clutch for a long time.
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