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RE: Instructional Breeding Project (Tutorial Added, Week 1 Kitty Info!)
Geez. You're right. I even have it correct in the FAQ. It's my decrepit. ancient brain which failed me again. All starts show zero and hide at least SIX traits, as Sanura pointed out.
My feeling is that the odds for starters are even .. that is one value is equally as likely as any other, within a given trait. That, coupled with the dominance/recessive rules, and the way people will tend to view it, would lead to the impression that more dominant trait values are more likely that more recessive.
My thinking is that teaching breeding should be more about teaching to breed effectively and less about all the possible ways things COULD go. Which goes back to the White whiskers. Yes, there are a number of possible ways. And, yes, all are possible. But effective breeding would go with the most likely flow, first. And, so, while it's POSSIBLE Mom hides White and the box is White hiding Dad's recessive, it's far more likely that the box shows Dad's visible White and carries Mom's non-Silver, non-White recessive. That may not ALWAYS be the case, but it's going to be correct at least six times as often (for parents like these) as it's going incorrect.
So, if the goal is to instruct breeders in all possible cases, have at it. But if the goal is to assist them to get better results, faster, I stand by my recommendation to first proceed under the assumption that the box and it's mother bother hide something recessive to White whisker color.
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