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[1cock2hens]

there are certain places around here that have white squirrels, not sure the kind just that they are solid white

 

[JShubin]

We only have one type of squirrel that I am aware of. just med sized ground squirrel. brown/greyish

 

[sdm111]

Those are pretty neat looking. I’ve seen plenty of fox squirrels and there’s a bunch of black phase gray squirrels in PA but neither here just plain old grays and the little red squirrels that hang out near the beaver ponds I trap/duck hunt. Those are protected though. Tiny little things.
We have quite a few flying squirrels too.

This is what to look for and believe me it's not easy to spot especially at daybreak lol

 

[centrarchid]

there are certain places around here that have white squirrels, not sure the kind just that they are solid white

Squirrels I have seen that are white represented Gray Squirrels. A population in Rockport, Indiana had three morphs; gray, off-white, and white. One isolated population of Fox Squirrels had white tails.

When I was a kid we had albino White-tailed Deer. I have also seen albino Green Frog tadpoles where 1/4 where white. All of the frogs died shortly after loosing tails.

 

[centrarchid]

What is your experience on the subject of mother/father heredity?

Some alleles coming from pop turned off in some species. To the alleles on, you need to see his grandkids. Sometime the effect can be lethal when hybrids involved. The alleles off can make so hybrids viable in only one direction.

 

[1cock2hens]

marionville mo has a huge population of white squirrels that are protected.. from what i read white squirrels are usually either a fox squirrel or a gray squirrel and it could be a true albino or just a morph, i cant get close enough to look into there eyes and stuff so that's why i cant tell you what the local ones are. most likely a gray since they are more commonly albino/white

 

[JShubin]

Some alleles coming from pop turned off in some species. To the alleles on, you need to see his grandkids. Sometime the effect can be lethal when hybrids involved. The alleles off can make so hybrids viable in only one direction.

Sweet. I know that its not as simple as stags are like mom, pullets like dad. I know alleles play a part (even generations down, like you said with grandkids). I have BBR Wild Type that throws white pullets, and stags from wheaton hen...

When things are "pure" I think generalizations are more obvious, and may be consistently true. But I know that crossing things up, you get crossed up offspring with varying degrees of mother/father traits.

 

[JShubin]

marionville mo has a huge population of white squirrels that are protected.. from what i read white squirrels are usually either a fox squirrel or a gray squirrel and it could be a true albino or just a morph, i cant get close enough to look into there eyes and stuff so that's why i cant tell you what the local ones are. most likely a gray since they are more commonly albino/white

Albino things usually have red eyes right?

 

[B123]

Nearly hit this with the mower several years back.
Caught the coon several years back too. From a distance, I thought it was just another possum.

 

[1cock2hens]

Albino things usually have red eyes right?

for the most part.. there are different kinds of albino so you cant say 100% ... like human albinos only sometimes have pink/red eyes