I'm puzzling over the colored parts on these yellow tris; I had been calling them splashed, but the background is white not colored. So are they splashed? Or should I call them something else; I've used the word 'painted' for other tris that weren't anything like the standard for tricolor or splashed. I guess that diluted yellow just plainly comes out as white much of the time. I don't know.
Anyroad, thanks, guys. these two are actually pretty nice compared to all the other yellow/fawn tris, with the exception that they lack solid patches. All the colors are pretty well mixed with white, making them look like marked merle. Maybe that's what I should call them?
The other yellow tri buck is in with two marked blacked does from tri litters. there are two ends I hope to achieve with these litters. First, to use the does and their litters as a repository from which I may extract the fawn self, eventually, and also to take another approach for breeding yellow tris. when I first put individuals together in order to breed yellow tris I had no idea how the different c locus dilutions affected the appearance of the offspring. Just didn't know at all.
It'll become clearer with the three litters I should have with the albino Berg and the three marked black does from tri litters. they each carry only one reactive allele in the C locus; they are all C c^?. As far as I can tell having a single albino allele fulfills the requirement for the tri genes to create the reversions in all their glory, without actually having any other discernable effect.
What I think happened in my yellow tri pairings is that I have combinations of c^e c^ch, like Dora and Dingbat, which would account for the streaky patches shot with white; it's diluted ticking. The pooling occurs at the margins where the yellow meets the white background. The ones that had solid patches of yellow, orange, and cream were probably c^e c or c^e c^h. Then there are all the ones that were c^e c^e; I had a whole lot of BEW's for a while there. The one surviving BEW, a big buck, has been paired up as well. Oddeye, having solid dark patches of deep red-orange at the nose and tail, was probably c^e c^h.
