Show & Tell
Have you ever mixed different colors of paint to render an aggregate target color? You add a little of one color to another, toward the logic, “you can always add more, but once there, you cannot remove too much, once the target color is exceeded”. When selectively breeding animals for a desired appearance, the paint-mixing advice doesn’t really apply, so when we set out to make an extreme version of Reverse Okeetees over 15 years ago (the only mutation being Amelanistic) we picked the most extreme examples from each generation to breed to one another OR bred the most desirable ones to unrelated examples that were close to our color and pattern goals?
Details & Bonus pics . . .