Breeding questions

[usaf21stsf]

Hey everyone I'm looking into breeding and coming up with a plan for my project I want to do. If you take a female pied and breed her to 2 different male het pieds is there a chance to get offspring of the types the males?

For example taking a Mojave het pied male and a pastel het pied male to the female can you get pastel pieds and Mojave pieds in the clutch?

[Mustang5]

Yes you can. Here are all the combos you would get from that clutch.

pastave pied (pastel mojave): 6% chance

pastave 66% het pied: 19% chance

pastel pied: 6% chance

mojave pied: 6% chance

66% het pied pastel: 19% chance

66% het pied mojave: 19% chance

Normal pied: 6% chance

66% het pied: 19% chance

[usaf21stsf]

Awesome thanks!

Now why is it only 66% if both males are 100% het to a full pied?

[Mustang5]

I'm sorry I must not have read your post correctly. I thought that you had a mojave het pied male and a pastel het pied female. Okay sorry I am changing my answer to no. You have to have a female that is het pied as well. When you breed two males to a female there is usually only one father. So in that case you are going to get all het pieds if the female doesn't have some sort of pied gene.

[usaf21stsf]

Ahhh. Okay thanks. Ya i was asking about 1.0 pastel het pied 1.0 Mojave het pied to 0.1 pied.

update to fix spelling

[Mustang5]

Ahhh. Okay thanks. Ya i was aking about 1.0 pastel het pied 1.0 Mojave het pied to 0.1 pied.

Sorry about the confusion. It would be easier to get a 1.0 pastel het pied and a 0.1 mojave het pied or the other way around. Not many breeders breed multiple males to a female because there is a chance that the father they want to sire the clutch won't produce the clutch if that makes sense. Again sorry about the confusion good luck with your breeding project.

[usaf21stsf]

No problem you answered my question. Thanks for your help!

[PitOnTheProwl]

Who did you get the males from?
Do you know for sure they really are 100% het?
If you wind up with a clutch of normal or no pieds then you don't know which male didn't get it done.
That's just me though.