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RE: Newbie Q
Yes, and a Gold Star for qualifying it as "countable".
What you've learned from this box:
* Mom carries a hidden (Recessive) fur of Blue Tabby Or Better
* Dad carries a hidden of Blue Tabby Or Better, as well
* Either Mom or Dad carries exactly Blue Tabby, but you don't know which.
* The box carries BOTH recessives: Blue Tabby and Blue Tabby Or Better
Breeding the box to her father will produce:
* Diamond II (50% odds)
* Blue Tabby Or Better (50% odds)
If Dad carries exactly Blue Tabby, you'll never see anything else.
If Dad carries Better (recessive) to Blue Tabby, split the Blue Tabby Or Better result.
* Diamond II (50% odds)
* Blue Tabby (25% odds)
* Better (25% odds)
IF .. and ONLY IF .. you see something OTHER than Blue Tabby from the box mated with her Dad you learn Mom carries exactly Blue Tabby, Dad and the box carry exactly whatever else it was you see, and NO OTHER fur is possible.
Meanwhile, Mom is idle. You'll have several choices. The best of those are
* Menagerie her to save L$
* breed to another starter, breed to something more recessive than Blue Tabby
Meanwhile, the Box and her Dad will be making boxes. Some of those will be males and some females. And there is the chance you'll get traits shown. If you goal is to produce more Blue Tabby, rather than discovering what might lie hidden there or proving out what Mom and Dad hide, keep an eye on those offspring boxes. If any shows a trait in addition to the fur you already have, AND shows Blue Tabby, you'll want to swap that box in, replacing the same-gender parent. That will increase your chances of producing multi-traited Blue Tabby .. BUT .. at the expense of tossing away hidden trait values. (This is called "Genetic Drift") So, you'll want to branch out the Blue Tabby line, mixing in stock from others, to keep improving the trait count and quality in the Blue Tabby line.
Wow! So many choices, right? Save your Lindens because that's why so many people have so MANY cats in their cattery!
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