piedbald?

if i was to buy a 100% het male piedbald and breed it to my normal female would i come up w/any pied or just a bunch of normals?

I think you'd come up with with a bunch of normals, and possibly some hets.

errr, i believe you would come up with a bunch of 50% poss.het offspring
which means, theres a 50% chance that they carry the pied trait(but that doesn't mean that half of the offspring will, its just the odds). Then by breeding the female offspring back to the 100% male, you should be able to prove out if any of the offspring are het.pied.

I'm pretty sure i explained that properly. The only downfall is it will take a while to prove out the offspring, because you'll have to raise the female offspring till they reach breeding maturity. So it'll probably take a couple of years to accomplish the project - and hopefully in the first 100% het. male to Normal female breeding you'll get some female offspring, otherwise, you'll have to wait, and try again. Since you're 100% het is male, you'll need female offspring to breed back to them.

i'd say try to get an answer from someone more knowledgable on here, like KLG - i'm sure she could give you alot better answer than i just did

Also, i forgot -

In the third round of breeding: 100% het. Male x 50% Het. Female -
It would be possible that all of the offspring appear normal, thus making them 66% het. Hopefully you could get lucky and get a dominant carrier out of the breeding, but i'd recommend trying to breed to multiple normal females in the first round, and thus upping your odds of hitting a dominant in the proving process(just due to more eggs being produced....you're giving yourself more chances)

that sounds like its goin 2 take a while! well cant ijust breed 2 hets for pied and get a Pied?

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Originally Posted by sk8er4life

that sounds like its goin 2 take a while! well cant ijust breed 2 hets for pied and get a Pied?

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well....you can breed two 100% hets together, and out of a 4 egg clutch the odds are as follows:
25% chance for a homo. pied(visable morph)
25% chance of normal
50% chance for possible Het

man! I want a pied

Try a Punnett square, that'll help you figure it out. Go here for Punnett Square 101, or for more specific snake related genetic information Check this out.

That brings up a thought, are there stud services in the python arena? That would be cool.
for a meir one hatcling, i'd share my guy with other local pastels for sure, heck, even get
crazy and lend him out to...ummmm...what would a pastel mix with ??? be?

sorry, that's off topic...

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Originally Posted by Deven

That brings up a thought, are there stud services in the python arena? That would be cool.
for a meir one hatcling, i'd share my guy with other local pastels for sure, heck, even get
crazy and lend him out to...ummmm...what would a pastel mix with ??? be?

sorry, that's off topic...

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