Recessive Dominance Index

[Serena Stroikavskoi]

From a mathematical standpoint on dominance/recessive I view it more in how often is the trait thrown and by matched to what.

Example for me would be shades as that's a current project I'm working on and for as far back as I can go on one side it's natural shade and then on the 7th generation back I run into glitter for a few generations. Now I am incorporating shade into it and picked blush because so far throughout these generations despite breeding with shaded cats I not once got one with a shade. But I was pairing with porcelain or glitter. Now I have one not so traited with blush shade and I kid you not 2 out of 3 breeds I have gotten twinkle on the offspring.

So my equation (just on the traits I like so far) is dominant/shown=1/recessive hidden=0 for appearance on the list, then by the percentage I see when matched with certain traits. As you'll tell breeding for some traits seem to be thrown more often than others. Some traits seem to stay as hiddens versus if it's shown. Ody Bellini was a bear for me to pull as a hidden but once shown I got it all the time even on breeding with more dominant eyes that hid it. While on the same front I tried to help someone that had a cat hiding tapestry organica and all I ever got was the dominant on that cat hiding my ody bellini. So I kid you not right now I am breeding siamese chocolates with dusky diamond eyes, full siblings showing those. Out of 5 offsprings all 5 have the fancie dusky, but 3 are balinese creams which is 3 generations back. My opinion is it depends on the trait and what you are matching it with along with is it showing or hidden. Then throw to up your percentage of success if you have 2 compatible cats, which is why I think kittycest and backbreeding works so well.

But again thats my two cents and I'm sticking to it.