SUNSETS

We produced our first Het for Sunsets in 1998 from an F3 orange Hog Island female bred to a F3 Super Hypo.  In  2002 the first sunsets were produced from breeding Het Sunset to Het Sunset, 25% of the offspring came out with reduced pattern and intense pink, red and orange colors, resembling the sun setting.  We named these offsprings "Sunsets".  It took 7 years of selective breedings to produce the first pair of Het for Sunsets and 3 more years to get the Hets to produce F1 Sunsets.

The Hypo is an incomplete dominant gene.  The Hog Island is a natural occurring hypo dominant gene.  When bred to each other you produce 50% Hypo x Hog (het Sunsets/Sunset Crosses) and 50% Hogs.  These Hypo x Hogs are your Hets for Sunsets.  When you breed the Hypo x Hogs to Hypo x Hogs you will produce 25% Sunsets, 12 1/2% Normal x Hogs, 12 1/2% Normal and 50% Hypo x Hogs.  When you breed dominant Hypo (super) to a Hog Island, you will produce all Hypo x Hogs (Het Sunsets or Sunset Crosses).  As explained the Hog gene is a natural occurring hypo gene or wild type dominant.  Sunsets are genetically dominant carrying 50% of the hog gene and 50% of the hypo gene.  They are homozygous (Hypo x Hoggs - Supers).

If you breed a Sunset to a Hypo,  50% of the liter produced will be Sunsets carrying 25% of the Hog gene and the other 50% of the liter will be Hypo x Hog (Het for Sunset) that are also carrying 25% Hog of the hog gene, basically all the offsprings are carrying 25% of the hog gene.  If you breed a Sunset to a Het Sunset you will produce 50% Sunsets that are carrying 50% of the Hog gene and the other 50% of the liter will be Het Sunset that are also carrying 50% of the Hog gene.  This is a productive way to produce sunsets, but not the best.  The best way is to actually breed Sunset to Sunset.  This will produce 100% Sunsets, giving you the most intense colors and the reduced patterns.

CALICO SUNSETS AND HET CALICO SUNSETS

The Calico gene is a co-dominant gene. The male we have was produced from a Hypo to Albino breeding in 2003.  Our Hypo Calico is a triple het, he is het for super hypo, het for super calico and het for albino.

The definition of Calico is an animal having an appearance of spotted or patches of different colors in different areas.  The Calico Het Sunsets were produced by breeding our triple het Calico male to a sunset cross (Hypo x Hog), which produced 50% Calico Hypo Hogs that are het for super calico, het for super hypo and 50% het for albino or (Calico sunsets hets that are 50% het albino and 100% Het for Sunset and Super Calico) and 12 1/2% normals that are carrying 25% of the hog gene and 12 1/2% that are calico normal carrying 25% of the hog gene. The last 25% of the liter are calico sunsets. (Calico Hypo x Hog Supers 50% het Albino).

CORAL

We have been working with the coral gene since 1998 and have been producing coral albinos, hypo coral albinos (sunglows) for the past 10 years.  We believe that the coral gene is a line genetic recessive gene.  The normals from our coral breedings that we call het for coral always produce babies expressing the coral gene.  Some believe the coral gene is polygenetic randomly occurring in some blood lines.  In our breeding trials the coral gene is genetically recessive. We will continue to work with the coral gene, to produce some really exciting designer boa morphs.

CORAL ALBINO

Coral Albino to normal will produce normals that are 100% het for Coral Albino. 

Coral Albino to Het Coral Albino will produce 50% Coral Albinos and 50% normals Het for Coral Albino.

Het Coral Albino to  Het Coral Albino will produce 50% Het Coral Albinos, 25% Normals and 25% Coral Albinos. The Het for Coral Albinos and Normals from this type of breeding will all look the same and will be termed 66% het for Coral Albino.

Het Coral Albino to Normal will produce Normals that are 50% het for Coral Albino.  They will all look the same, but only 50% will be carrying the Coral Albino gene.

Coral Albino to Coral Albino will produce 100% Coral Albino.

HYPO

The Hypo gene is an incomplete dominant gene (co-dominant).  It carries a recessive gene that makes it a het for super (a dominant hypo).  The term Double Het  is used in a hypo when it is carrying a second recessive gene, for example the Albino gene or Anery gene.  So a Hypo co-dominant carrying one recessive gene will be called a Double Het for whatever other gene it is carrying such as DH Sunglow (Albino Hypo) and (Super Sunglow), which is a dominant Hypomelanistic Albino.