Hets?

[Jeff B]

I got a strange one for you. I had a little tan eastern that was born normal and was told it could color up a erythristic and that it was 100% het snow (aka dbl het melanistic and albino combo). It was the result of a ery/flame bred by a snow female. As he started to grow he began to color up and is now an ery/flame which i bred this year to 2 wc females and both litters had visual flames in them. I thought this was strange considering he was not born a visual flame at birth. This may change the way we look at flames because that means that some of the normals could color up to flames. Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Yes that is exactly how it works. Some color up over the first year or two more than others and some at different rates as well. We can't predict how that will pan out, dispite ridiculous claims that I have seen from both Joe and Tom that if it doesn't have color when its born it never will.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I always thought that flames had to be somewhat visual at birth so it threw me for a loop.

yes that is exactly how it works. Some color up over the first year or two more than others and some at different rates as well. We can't predict how that will pan out, dispite ridiculous claims that i have seen from both joe and tom that if it doesn't have color when its born it never will.