13-01-2009, 09:10 PM
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Re: A question for Siamese breeders
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Originally Posted by Saikou
You will probably get a myriad of answers to that question. Siamese purests would hold their hands up in horror at a siamese pedigree tainted with a nasty oriental (basically one step up from a moggie in their eyes  ). However, I have to say I agree with Mai Tai's breeder on this one. Orientals in a line do add a little bit of hybrid vigour. Sadly a lot of the siamese lines are greatly weakened by a number of recessive nasties that get passed on unchecked from generation to generation.
As the 'siamese' gene is recessive, any siamese can not carry the dominant 'oriental' gene so if you wanted to breed soley siamese from your kitten and you took her to siamese studs, even if she had an oriental parent or two, you would neve have an oriental pop up in a litter.
Under the GCCF siamese with one or more oriental parents are considered pedigree siamese and can be shown. The only difference is that they have a cssr supplementary registration number rather than a cs registration number, but there are no restrictions.
Just check that if there are oris in the pedigree that there are no foreign whites behind the siamese lines in there.
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Thanks Saikou that has made it clearer on the genetics for me. If I look for a Siamese stud with oriental genes I should be ok?
However my pink slip from GCCF clearly says 'cannot be shown, silver in pedigree' though Mai Tai is registered as a blue point she doesn't have a breed number. I have read GCCF regulations regarding cssr and it does that the silver is an exception. why is that if the oriental gene cannot be passed on? |