Is the white on pieds a random factor?

Is the amount of white that a piebald ball python gets a random factor? How much does the amount of white on the parents effect the amount of white that the offspring receive?

It all differs. Just because a parent is high white does not mean its offspring will be as well.

After researching this it seems that it can vary a lot just like the opinions about it. How about the pattern?

the amount of white you get seems to be random, thats what most people say, but im not sure. We now basically have two pied genes, pied and leopard, and animals that look pied can be homozygous pied, leopard pied, or homozygous leopard / super leopard. Maybe its just a coincidence, but ive seen pics of several snakes that where 90% white, basically all white except for the head, from ppl working with the leopard-gene.

anyway, my assumption would still be that its random.

the non-white parts of a piebald can be influenced by all kind of genes when it comes to color and pattern, but the white just stays white, even if you make the rest really dark.

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Originally Posted by searcyc1

Is the amount of white that a piebald ball python gets a random factor? How much does the amount of white on the parents effect the amount of white that the offspring receive?

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Low white animals can produced high white animals, and vice versa. You can have a 90% high white animal (that is to say, an animal that is 90% white), who gives you a bunch of babies that are only 10% white.

Depends on what you mean by pattern. Color patterns like the spots on a cow are randomized, but specific kinds of snakes(piebalds, clowns, etc.) are genetic.
Eh, let me explain that better.
Breeding two pieds will get you a pied, but his or her pattern will not resemble his or he parents. Even if you were to clone an animal, the pigment cells that make up their coloring arrange themselves while the animal develops in utero(or egg), so an animal with spots or stripes will have a different arrangement than their parents.