Breeding 101: getting out of double genesis fur and keeping your super rece

[Kayla Woodrunner]

Onward with my tale

Now we know what I should have done was birth the Cubby-Stratus daughter and mate her back to Stratus. But we all know I didn't. What I did was birth the Oprah-Stratus daughter, now named TigerLily.

So let's recap what we know

Stratus is
Genesis - Smokey IV-----Genesis Sunshine (curious/big)-----natural-----genesis-----genesis-----silver-----guitar
the hids we know right now are
Fur unknown-----eyes unknown-----tail unknown-----mysterious ear -----White/Light Wave or better

TigerLily is
Mom's Genesis Domino III-----Dad's Genesis Sunshine (curious/big)-----Dad's natural-----Dad's genesis-----Dad's mysterious-----Dad's white/ Mom's fussy

So I put them together once TigerLily reached consenting age (14 days for kittycats)
and I got this



Now at the time I thought TigerLily had dad's hidden nongenesis fur, so I thought Dad threw his shown fur on this baby. This baby generally sucked rocks --- all genesis traits -- but ..... dun dun dun

The hidden whisker shape was Odyssey FrazzyWave!!!! OMG! I was so happy.

Stratus had Odyssey FrazzyWave hidden. Happy dance. Happy Dance. And so does TigerLily.

. . . . . Lionel also showed genesis traits. He ended up with double genesis fur. The eyes, ears and whiskers were also genesis. He could have ended up double genesis eyes too since TigerLily and Stratus shared the same eyes.

You do a breedback child to parent when you think you have something more recessive than anything in your Cattery.

At the time the most recessive whisker shape I had was Light Wave. There was no other way to bring out that Odyssey FrazzyWave.

. . . . . . By doing the Parent-Child w/same Parent hidden (which I knew she had Dad's hidden since she showed Mom's shown), then I could get a super-recessive trait showing.

Of course if you do this with starters, you end up with double genesis traits on the babies fairly often due to breeding back a starter's baby which usually show a few genesis traits from their starter parents.

. . . . . So I bred TigerLily to Stratus a couple more times trying to get the hidden nonexistent nongenesis fur out. And I got their son Lionel on 8/28



I got Odyssey FrazzyWave again. Plus he was a teacup which I adore. And he also showed chop chop tail. But he showed Mom's genesis fur.

Since Tiger Lily got a genesis tail from her Dad Stratus here and (chorus here)
1 + 1 = 2
Her hidden tail has to come from Mom. Mom shows Tiger Curl. Tiger Lily's hidden tail has to be Tiger Curl or more recessive.

Chop Chop is dominant to Tiger Curl so cannot come from TigerLily. It is Stratus's hidden tail. Lionel's tail Chop Chop come from Stratus so he gets mom's hidden tail because her Genesis tail is now lost. Since her Genesis tail is dominant to Chop Chop, it did not pass because (chorus here)
Dom is always on top

Things are definitely on an upswing now that I know I have Frazzy.