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Surprise Surprise

9/24/2014

 
You may remember awhile back we had a solid tort doe bred to our sable point and she surprised us by producing a little sable baby.  Well, it takes a tort carrying sable to produce sable, however it was nowhere in her pedigree, as far as we could see.  Meaning, it was recessive further back than 3 generations.  Well, the same doe just produced quite a fun litter for us.  A solid tort, a sable point and our first blue tort!  So not only does she carry a recessive sable gene, she also carries a recessive dilute gene we had no idea about.  As elated as I am (Love blue torts) it is also a little sad as dilute isn't always a great combo for the sable program.  But at the same time, this is great for us to learn, because now we know, when selling any offspring that she carries sable and dilute. This has been a fabulous lesson for the girls in learning recessive genes and also in better understanding our own lines. 
We also have a litter of 4 healthy chunky sables that we are excited to watch grow.  For those of you interested in Sables please let us know so we can make sure to notify you as we decide to part with a few of these cuties.   

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