The VPI Blood Project
A long-term selection study in VPI Blood.
How far can Quantum Boas push the appearance of VPI Blood? A selection project documented from foundation parents to adult phenotype.
This project asks a long-term selection question: how far can Quantum Boas push the appearance of VPI Blood?
The objective is not merely to reproduce VPI Blood. We want to evaluate variation within the offspring and selectively retain animals demonstrating desirable characteristics.
The project will document the entire selection process — foundation parents, litter production, newborn evaluation, multiple holdbacks where appropriate, and progression at six months, one year and two years through to adult phenotype. Eventually: select the strongest foundation animals, introduce complementary genetics, and evaluate the next generation.
The animals behind the project
Kurama is the VPI Blood foundation sire — the genetic starting point the whole project is measured against.
Leonne completes the foundation pair, carrying Blood behind VPI so the first generation can produce VPI Blood offspring with meaningful variation to select from.
VPI Albino is its own distinct T-negative albino line — unrelated to, and incompatible with, the Kahl and JPC lines.
Blood is a selectively bred direction producing heavy melanin and rich, saturated red-brown coloration that intensifies with age.
VPI Blood combines the two; this project is about refining how that combination actually looks, generation after generation.
What we're selecting for
How much variation exists within VPI Blood offspring — and which individuals best express the characteristics we want to carry forward?
Possible outcomes include VPI Blood offspring across a range of expression, with multiple holdbacks retained where appropriate for progression tracking.
Nothing here is guaranteed — the point of the project is to evaluate what actually appears and select from it.
Possibilities, not guarantees — outcomes are documented as they actually happen in the timeline below.
The journal so far
Foundation pair established
Kurama × Leonne. Generation 0 — the parents this project will be measured against.
Where this project goes next
Select the strongest animals from each generation, introduce complementary genetics, and evaluate the next generation. Genetics establish VPI Blood — selection determines what Quantum Boas does with it.
“Genetics tell us what is possible. Selection determines where we take it.”