Clutch #28! Pied x Monarch

A year ago I put this male Monarch to one of my pied Mommas to make some double hets. And I produced a wild, weird pied. But Momma had already made some weird stuff and I wondered if it was either retained sperm or parthenogenesis. The Monarch male wasn’t supposed to be het Pied.

This year, the girl I used was a virgin, ready for a first clutch. She was only with the Monarch male. So this will make me double hets and with 7 eggs it should answer the question of the Monarch being het Pied or not.

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