So my little guy was born september this year, have had him a couple of months and as he is growing I have noticed this white patch towards the end of his tail. Is this signs of having Piebald in him?
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What was the pairing info?
It could be a ringer which is a sign of you BP being het Pied.
Might be completely unrelated but does your BP happen to have Sugar? A new girl of mine has a similar white patch, she’s a Cinnamon Yellowbelly Sugar and has a few white patches like that…
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Correction: A ringer is a POSSIBLE sign that an animal may be het Pied. It is not a guarantee
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As Christina notes, the pairing information is crucial in helping us answer your questions. Additionally, a full body pic of your animal would help as Pied causes very characteristic disruptions to patterning aside from the blatantly obvious white patching
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Heyup!
Noice, ive not heard of the “Sugar” trait before!
This is what I know he’s got from the breeder -
Enchi orange dream leopard ivory poss fire.
I havent got much more than that.
This is the other side of the tail so it does come around like a ring would.
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Sugar and Calico are currently considered the same morph, just different lines. I don’t recall if it has been proven with genetic testing though.
With the morphs you have listed, unless there was something else that could have been missed in the parent’s pairing, there’s no het pied.
For me, I’ve seen similar markings appear in enchi OD fire combos. So they may prove out fire on a shed test. Some of the markings I’ve seen are more of a ringer and others just some white flaming without the other color disruption.
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Based on the combo your animal is, my inclination is that what you are seeing is nothing more than a spurious ringer mark and it is not indicative of het Pied. There are a number of morphs that, when in combination, can result is the stochastic expression of a ringer. It is basically just a “car crash” happening at the point where multiple genetic pathways intersect
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