How can you tell the difference between a dwarf retic and a mainland?

[Sublimeballs]

Originally Posted by millertime89

The only way you can tell for certain is if you know the locality of the parents or do genetic testing. Scale count is a good indicator but not 100% since there are so many crosses. You've also got the head thing backwards, dwarfs have longer, more slender heads and mainlands have bigger, stockier heads.

True on the crosses. I've seen some weird counts out of crosses.


Good eye on the head thing I looked right past it. If we bring saputrai a into the mix; Then mainlands heads look long.lol. Saputrais have the "bull dog" heads of the retic world.