So I was thinking" What would a DG Lav Clown Pied look like?" so I went to MM and lo and behold they didn’t have any for sale or in their history. So I simplified it and they haven’t even had DG Lav. I know that large high end breeders like KINOVA have produced DG Lavs ++. Let me know your thoughts and thanks.
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Multiple recessive projects like that tend to be held onto pretty closely until the breeder wants to sell off excess. Or surprise people at a show with the combo as a showpiece animal.
Also since a visual is guaranteed to throw the gene to all offspring, any visual combos will be held back to help boost the chances of multiple recessives even further. Why keep a 1:64 chance when you can make it a 1:4?
Maybe someone will have photos of any neat animals being passed around but sometimes it’s frustratingly difficult to pull info from some breeders on anything.
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Yeah that makes sense, I guess if I somehow made one I probably wouldn’t let any one get within 20ft of it lol.
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I believe a DG Lav has been produced and is was barely distinguishable from a normal lav. I’m not sure if it has been proven out as a DG Lav, just suspected. I also don’t recall who the breeder was. It somewhat turned me off of the DG Lav potential. It could be a situation where the benefit isn’t realized until the animal hits adulthood where the color longevity of DG can really shine.
Sunset Lavs, on the other hand, are a different matter entirely 
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