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Thanks Wayne and Dennis. It would be priceless just to have one running around in my pen for people to see.
Mellanistic Semen
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Brett I was hopeing the guy you bought your straw from would put one on whitetail exchange. I would like to have a straw I was not trying to make you mad.
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I am not mad. He does not have any left to put on the exchange. They are all 3 sold and I hope it works.
I let a one year old mellanistic walk this year while hunting on a friends ranch. If I had known there was a mellanistic buck there I would have been prepared for a post mortem extraction. He is still there and I will be ready for him next year with everything I need.
I let a one year old mellanistic walk this year while hunting on a friends ranch. If I had known there was a mellanistic buck there I would have been prepared for a post mortem extraction. He is still there and I will be ready for him next year with everything I need.
Melanistic coloration is a recessive trait just like albinism. So for instance, lets say that the melanistic gene is represented by a "M". A normal brown deer would be "m", a normal deer that does not carrier the melanistic gene would be "m x m". In order for a deer to be melanistic it must be "M x M". The offspring that are produced when breeding a melanistic deer to a brown deer would be "m x M". So if you were to produce a buck and doe from your cross of the melanistic buck and a brown doe you would have two deer with a "m x M" gene. If you were to breed the brother and sister and they produced twins there would be three possibilities for genetic pass down, you could have a deer with "m x m" for fur color, you could have a deer with "m x M" fur color, and you could have a deer with "M x M" coloration which would be melanistic. In reading about melanistic deer, it appears that scientist believe that there are actually 6 different genes that play a factor in causing a deer to be melanistic. So it is actually less likely than the 33% chance that I just explained. Below is an article with information on animals harvested in WI, it is quite interesting if you take a look at it. It shows you how rare a melanistic deer really is.
http://www.sdstate.edu/nrm/organizations/gpnss/tpn/upload/40-3-4_Jacques_et_al.pdf
-Johnny B
http://www.sdstate.edu/nrm/organizations/gpnss/tpn/upload/40-3-4_Jacques_et_al.pdf
-Johnny B
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dearjohn said:
A genetics course I took in college. The melanistic gene is more complex than just being recessive. Certainly breeding two deer with the gene should increase ones chance of producing melanistic offspring. It does not guarantee it however.
I will be interested to see how people do with this!
-Johnny B
I agree. If you keep getting the Melanistic you chances do increase. Then there was a cliff. I had to do an experiment with Genes like that. I Finally got the color that I wanted then I fell off the Cliff. Albino. I did not get to finish.... School ended. You can do it! Can not wait.