with all the colored morphs that people are going for lately with Bearded Dragons are the normal looking morphs becoming more uncommon? I thought I actually read somewhere that normal morphs are but I wasn't sure. Anyone know anything about this? Because i'll be mixing up the gene pool even more with my normal beardy in the next six to eight months. Should I be looking for a normal female so I can keep the line normal?

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obsoleta lindheimeri(texas ratsnake)
varanus nilocticus(nile monitor)
Sternotherus odoratus(musk turtle)
pagona minor(2)(bearded dragons breeding pair)

You have a good point. Professional breeders are going to breed whatever the public demands. I personally don't believe that there is currently any shortage of normal colored Bearded Dragons. The normal babies are everywhere around here. I think that part of the reason the color morphs have not displaced the normals is because people get dragons more for their personality as opposed to their appearance.
Even the color morph dragons are not as dramatically different in appearance as say some of the color morphs of snakes.

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

Hello,

Normal Bearded Dragons aren't in short supply, they just aren't being bred for the reasons Merlin listed. Supply and demand play a huge role in what the market carries. If more people were purchasing normals, there would be more available.

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Yup they are right, we have a normal male that is just a "pet" now thanks to demand...

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Jayr & Mandy Robinson
J&M Herp Shack
"Are you watching closely?"

thats true but walk in to your local pet stores do seeing any at all if any is the animal listed as pastel morph

In that case im definatley breeeding for color... Is it possible to still get a few nicely colored babies in a clutch if the male is a normal and the female is something like a yellow morph? I didn't listen to well in life science in fifth grade so im not entirely sure on the xy chromosones thing. I know males are x and females are y and thats it. Are female genes commonly recessive? Or does it depend on the sex of a dragon to determine which parent's gene is recessive?

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obsoleta lindheimeri(texas ratsnake)
varanus nilocticus(nile monitor)
Sternotherus odoratus(musk turtle)
pagona minor(2)(bearded dragons breeding pair)