shuboyje
Well-known member
Here's my take on your ebony questions Megan:
IF you are knowingly working on isolating certain genotypes in your ebony breedings, then no, you should not use dirty bellied standards in your ebony program due to the risk of crossing in a ebony genotype unknowingly. This is what I was doing with my ebs prior to my hiatus and this is what I plan to restart, so I personally would steer clear of them.
If you are doing what most do and work with ebs purely on a phenotypical basis, and anything with a dark belly is called an "ebony" and goes into your lines(which is a fine method which will just lead to less consistancy and predictability in your offsprings color phase) then I would jump at the chance to add top notch dirty bellied standards into my lines. Ebony as we currently know it is already a genetic mess, what's the harm of adding to it a bit more if you stand to gain quality from it?
IF you are knowingly working on isolating certain genotypes in your ebony breedings, then no, you should not use dirty bellied standards in your ebony program due to the risk of crossing in a ebony genotype unknowingly. This is what I was doing with my ebs prior to my hiatus and this is what I plan to restart, so I personally would steer clear of them.
If you are doing what most do and work with ebs purely on a phenotypical basis, and anything with a dark belly is called an "ebony" and goes into your lines(which is a fine method which will just lead to less consistancy and predictability in your offsprings color phase) then I would jump at the chance to add top notch dirty bellied standards into my lines. Ebony as we currently know it is already a genetic mess, what's the harm of adding to it a bit more if you stand to gain quality from it?
