Hypo/Pastel Checkered gave birth today-ironically

[Jeff B]

Ironic because I had just posted pics of her in another post by Brad Chambers in the discussion of his new babies, must have been all that good carma and wishes last night, spurred her on to give birth.
Anyway she only had 3 babies and 2 jelly beans, but the babies are very, very large. I figured she would have a small litter as she is a small sized snake for a 2 yr old female. Of the 3 babies one is maybe a shade lighter in color and he popped male, but all 3 have the same light olive top of the head as the mother and pretty red/orange eyes, not sure if the one is a pastel or they all are, or none are, but none are granites, although 3 is too small a sample to make any conclutions or inferences. This is however what I expected, the sire is my male granite checkered so all 3 of these babies are 100% het for granite, that we know for sure. I think it is doubtfull that the granite and pastels that Brad proved out are the same gene, although the phenotype does have similar aberant pattern and color changes from the wild type, but the granite is more radical. It will be interesting to see what comes from breeding these potientially double hets back to each other or to mom or to the granite gene. Who knows how those two genes will react to each other, but it is neat to see Brads new babies whether they are a new recessive gene or "supers" of a co-dom, and it's nice knowing that the dame of this litter is from that same stock so potientially these 3 babies could be double het for granite and Brads pastel gene, anyway you slice it that is a lot of potiential to be excited about.