The risk of Hets?

I have a 100% het male, and I was going to breed him to make my own 50% possible hets, but I think I'm going to pick a few 50% possible hets females instead. If they don't prove out, I still will have nice breedable normal females. It's a win/win for me.


Will they sell you just the 50% possible het females?

Basically possible het pied males are near free so I doubt they would sell just the two females any less. Maybe get to $300 so an even $150 each. They could probably sell the two pos het males as normals for $12.50 each to recoup the difference.

I would also recommend buying a 100% het pied male in that situation so as to nail down that half of your risk (assuming from a reliable source).

Another thing to consider with possible het pieds is the sporadic het pied belly indicator marks. They certainly aren't perfect as some normals have them and some hets don't but I still believe they are way more common in hets than the general population. If these girls are the remainders of the clutch after the ones with the belly marker where pulled out they might have less than 50% chance of being hets. But $150 for a good cb isn't that much of a risk for the possible reward. If you where considering buying some cb birls anyway you have to consider how much extra the chance of pied gene is worth to you.

I didnt end up getting them, when I looked at they're paper work on the hets genetics, the parent was a unproven possible het, the other parent a normal. If the parent isnt even proven het, I didnt think it was worth it to even try with the possible possible het babies