breeding for recessive traits

[anna Acanthus]

As a picture tells it better than words i've chosen a simple example :




I shall now be pairing Tangerine with this guy :

Fur: Foxie - Salt & Pepper Mask
Eyes: Jade (Mysterious|Small)
Shade: Porcelain
Tail: Swanky
Ears: Rounded
Whiskers: Blonde Streaked (Wavy)

So Tangerine has Light Wash hidden from her mom, and hopefully Jade will pull them through.
I choose a Foxy S&P which is recessive Bali Cream to try pass her hidden Siam Tortie so of course the S&P must show too for it to remain present in the offspring.

So if all goes well i should soon be getting this or better from the pairing:

Fur: Foxie - Salt & Pepper Mask
Eyes: Light Wash(Mysterious|Small)
Shade: Porcelain
Tail: Swanky
Ears: Rounded
Whiskers: Blonde Streaked (Plush)

and once i have this i shall build up with more recessive traits and so on and so forth until i have a pair which can make me the super traited Tortie that i want.

It's sorta like weaving really.

Hope this helps a bit

** In case you aren't clued into this yet, any shown trait will always have a more recessive hiding and never a more dominant. This hidden can be either a parents' shown or it's hidden trait.
Shown trait from one parent and the hidden from the other.