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RE: breeding for recessive traits
thank you. what makes it frustrating is that i'm (i think) pretty decent at breeding for dominant traits, it is pretty straightforward... recessives are where i am tripping up.
the last point in bold seems to speak to what I thought might be happening.
So, I'm going to lay out a hypothetical scenario and see if my math is correct:
breeding a pair of siblings by the same parents. they both end up with the same fur and eyes, both of which are of higher dominance than the hidden fur and owned by the parent whose trait didn't pass.
I breed the two siblings together. Because the hidden fur and eyes are recessive to the shown (dominant) fur and eyes, the kittens will share the parent's shown traits, but will still have the same hidden traits as the parents as well?
To get the hidden traits to show, i need to take a cat from outside the bloodline that is either showing or hiding the recessive trait from the sibling's kitten? Or, alternately breeding one of the siblings back with the parent that showed the hidden trait of the sibling?
Again, that would explain why I got a huge batch of Occi's from my Plat and Occi backbreeding pair: the dad's shown fur was the same as the daughter's hidden fur, and i'd have been better off breeding a plat back with the mom (who was also a pandie plat).
Is this correct?
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