Instructional Breeding Project (Week 7 Info: MEGA!)

[Tad Carlucci]

hmm? I was sure I read somewhere that Ear and Tail might hide Genesis as well as non-Genesis. Perhaps that changed? I know, when wrote the answer for the FAQ I was told Ear and Tail were not guaranteed to hide non-Genesis and corrected the FAQ accordingly. I'll root around, but I'm fairly sure it was official guidance that Ear and Tail were not guaranteed to hide non-starter trait values. Perhaps that changed and I should correct the FAQ?

As to your experience with your Odyssey Sublime eyes .. that's my point exactly. It's POSSIBLE, but quite unlikely that you'll choose to breed a partner showing the same trait as the hidden. The more possible values (as with Fur and Eyes) the less likely this is. The more dominant the partner's trait, the less likely it is. So, when you breed the most-dominant non-starter trait, such as White whisker color, to a starter and you get that know back out, as in this case, the odds strongly favor the starter hiding something more recessive.

Specifically, in the case of breeding White whisker color, to a starter, when you get a White whisker color offspring, the odds are 1-in-5 (20%) that the starter also hides White whisker, and 4-in-5 (80%) that it hides something more recessive. Hence my advice, when planning your next move after such a result: assume the starter, and therefor the box, hide something more recessive than White whisker color.

These, of course, are ODDS. They don't guarantee it hides something more recessive. As you found with your Odyssey Sublime eyes (where the odds are (presently) approximately 9-in-10 (90%) that your starter hide something more recessive, it's always possible to get that other 1-in-10 starter, as you did.

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Specifically, for a starter mating with White whiskers, the odds are:

50% the offspring will be Silver

24% the offspring will be White from Dad and something more recessive than White from starter Mom

4% the offspring will be White from starter Mom and something more recessive than White from Dad

6% the offspring will be White hiding White.

16% the offspring will be something more recessive than White hiding something equally or more recessive

The box won the coin toss and is White.

This is assuming Dad's hidden whisker color is fully random and completely unknown, and represents the worst-case scenario, which was indicated by the analysis (I've not examined Dad's Pedigree).