The Genesis Project

[Ivy Norsk]

The newest genesis furs are now out, so it really is time to deal with the old furs and get their chart into order. The chart above contains no new information and is not based on any new breeding of mine. It is simply a different graphical representation of the material which is already on Saga. I thought this format would be more conducive to conducting further proofs. I would appreciate some proofreading and double-checking by my breeder companions to make sure I haven’t done any inverting or problematic typos.

A few words about the chart:

Column A is placed furs as usual.
The other columns represent the different generations (or years) of gen furs shown in their own relative dominance - which has been proved. There’s a bit more up/down fluidity to these columns than in the regular Saga charts, but I think it still helps. In addition to showing the internal dominance within the generations, many of the furs have added information (< fur or > fur) which shows that a proof has been conducted about that particular fur. I do not have access to these proofs - again, this is all material that is taken from the Saga site.

I’d like to go over the other columns, starting with D and working inwards.

Column D is the 2016 furs. If Ginger 1 is dominant to Domino 5, then the whole column will be placed and stack on top of the older furs. I am running that test now at the Saga site.

Column C is all the Gen 5s (2015). This is the most interesting column. We have a proof that places the top fur, Domino 5. But look at the bottom fur, Flame 5. It’s recessive. It could fit anywhere within the bottom 10 furs. Personally, I would be tickled pink if it turned out that Flame 5 was recessive to Flame 1, and that the 5s straddled all of the older generations. There are no proofs for any of the other Gen 5 furs. They could go anywhere in the range. Clearly more testing is needed here.

Column B is all the Gen 4s (2014). I’ve cheated a bit with the blue coloration. The range is not as fixed as the color implies. What it does emphasize is that the bottom of the range - Smokey 4 - is recessive to Domino 3 but is (interestingly) tethered to Flame 5, which can be anywhere in the bottom 10. The top of the range was just placed: Coco 4 is recessive to Coco 3. An earlier version of the Saga charts listed Coco 4 as being dominant to Smokey 3 but I do not see that now. If this is still true, then Coco 4 only needs to be tested versus Diamond 3 to be placed.

There you have it. As I said, proofreading is welcome. There have been some changes in the Genesis sections of the Saga chart in the past day or so. We aren’t privy to the proofs but stuff is going on. I had just opened testers for Coco 3 versus coco 4 and that test is apparently already completed.