My classmates and I were talking the other day about how genetics are weird and most(if not all) animals have different genes that get turned on/off thought their life. I think the best example is how horses often have a different coat color when they are born and shed out to an adult color by 3ish because their fur color genes change. This also happens to people, for example I was born with black hair and now as an adult I’m blond (my parents were opposite, they were born blond and ended up with brown hair)
Little blurb of genetics out of the way, it got me thinking how funny it would be if Fluffies were like that. Like their chirppy/baby color wasn’t always the same color they would have as an adult. Mostly I was thinking how frustrating it would be to try and breed them because you might buy a good colored foal but it would grow up to be poopy or vice versa.
I would think given that they’re toys and genetics don’t really play much role it’s probobly unlikely that it would happen that way since I could see it being an issue (IE I bought a pink fluffy for my daughter and now it’s blue, I want a refund)
Enjoy my way to late at night fluffy thoughts
I’ve seen headcannons with and without these considerations. In some realms, traits are totally random. In others (I would go so far as to say most), traits are inherited from the parents. There appears to be some consideration for dominant and co-dominant traits, and even recessive traits. I’ve even seen line breeding.
I haven’t seen albinism pop up due to recessive trait breeding, which makes me wonder if it’s even genetically possible/whether albinism is deep-coded in or not?
Given that most forms of albinism in animals and humans are an autosomal recessive trait, it’s only inherited.
In real world animals and humans, it’s just melanin production that’s affected - how fluffy genetics control fluff/mane colour is entirely dependent on head canon, but given that white is seen occasionally, full albinism is definitely possible.
In fact, you could technically count fluffies with white fluff/mane as partial albinos as those parts don’t have pigmentation, which is what albinism is.
An experienced breeder always knows how the litter will flourish over time.