Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: silver spot vs white spot

Ah ha! Thanks a ton, that makes so much more sense to me. We've only been
breeding for pintos for four years and are 50% pinto out of 4 crias. I
think that's very good considering everyone else's production rates. I was
always told to breed a multi to a solid and I'm not doing that anymore, it has
only been producing solids for us. We are breeding our brown /w multi suri girl
this spring to a light fawn.

Susan

In a message dated 1/9/2009 5:51:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
alpacas@bellsouth.net writes:

Hi Susan,

Thanks for your compliments on my blog!

I don't have the percentages but I believe that the pintos are
considered to have the dark spotting gene. I have a male who has white
and dark spot genetics. Yet he has shown in fawn...weird stuff these
colors alpacas have. lol!

So I would look at the base color of your pinto or multi and if it's
white then you have to determine what kind of white it is, dilute,
white spot, or white dominant. White is more complicated. I guess the
pintos and multis are more difficult to get? Probably because many
genes are involved in the process.

If your pinto has a darker base color then you probably don't have to
worry about the BEW. However if the base color is white then consider
it to be a white animal and you will risk BEW when breeding to the
animals with white spots on the extremities.

I'd better stop. I'm confusing myself now. I got in over my head with
multis. :)

Katy

Katy Spears
Fairhope Alpacas
_alpacas@bellsouth.alp_ (mailto:alpacas@bellsouth.net)
www.alpacafarmgirl.www.alpa

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LunarStruck@, Luna
>
> Katy - read your blog, good job! Do you know the percentage of BEW
crias
> that will be born to a white spot bred to a multi or pinto? We have
been
> breeding for pintos/multis but have only been getting solids from a
TB with white
> spot to multi and pinto females with lots of white. Thanks,
>
> Susan Olson
> Alpaca Loco
> Riverside, CA

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