Het Percentages

Hi. I am wondering if someone can explain the Het percentages to me.
I get if a visual was breed to a normal you would get 100% right?

I have heard of 33%, 50%, 66% and 100%. I am just trying to make sure I understand correctly.
Thanks
Nichole

visual X normal = 100% hets
visual X het = visuals and 100% hets
Het X het = visuals and 66% hets
het X non het = 50% hets
anything else in my opinion is a normal until a parent is proven as a het or homozygous.

What about if one parent is visible but gives you a 66%? I saw that some where in an ad and it didn't seem right to me.

Thank you for breaking it down.

I have a clown male and everything he breeds will be a 100% het, normals and morphs.

If one parent is visual you will always get 100%, as for the rest, what Jerry said = ).

That's what I had thought. I am going to see if I can find the ad real quick.

Never mind. I can't find it. =(

So is there a genetic het table for future breeding? Like a genetic wizard?

What if you were to breed two 66% together?
Ideally I guess you would want 100% hets if you get a het or at least a 66%.

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Originally Posted by mebigbadbrat

What if you were to breed two 66% together?
Ideally I guess you would want 100% hets if you get a het or at least a 66%.

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If the two 66% snakes hatch a visual, then both become 100% hets.
But the chances are pretty slim. If you wanted to prove a 66% het, then it would be best to breed it to a visual. That way, all the babies are guaranteed to be at least 100% if none of them proved out.


But I wouldn't even bother buying a 66% het, unless they visually show some promising traits that the gene is there. (i.e. rail road track markings or ringers on het pieds. And many het clowns have a 'look' to them that isn't the norm)

Overall, it's just best to buy 100% hets or visuals. There's no guessing game or poor odds that way.

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Originally Posted by mebigbadbrat

That's what I had thought. I am going to see if I can find the ad real quick.

Never mind. I can't find it. =(

So is there a genetic het table for future breeding? Like a genetic wizard?

What if you were to breed two 66% together?
Ideally I guess you would want 100% hets if you get a het or at least a 66%.

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That would get very messy, besides the normal factors, when dealing with pos hets parents that don't prove out, another factor to add is the number of eggs laid, it a very variable thing, that in the end, really doesn't mean much. Your not going to be selling babies as 12% pos hets...

when dealing with expensive recessive morphs, you can see 33% and 25% being sold. 33% comes from a 66% het parent bred to a normal and a 25% comes from a 50% het parent bred to a normal. I doubt you will see it ball python world, unless we get a game changing recessive.

However you can turn on pos het ouput and it will tell you what % the babies will be when dealing with recessive het pairings.
http://www.owalreptiles.com/genetics.php

example...

Male:	Het Lavender Albino, Het Piebald
Female:	Het Lavender Albino, Het Piebald
Percent	Fraction	Traits
6.25%	1/16	Dreamsicle
18.75%	3/16	Lavender Albino, 66% Possible Het Piebald
18.75%	3/16	Piebald, 66% Possible Het Lavender Albino
56.25%	9/16	66% Possible Het Piebald, 66% Possible Het Lavender Albino
View Results Page

Hmm. Here is what I am looking at: I currently have an albino (visible) male who I want to get a pied (visible) female for. I have found an excellent priced pied girl with low-med white who I love at 400-500 grams.

If I breed these two together, I will get the double het 100% albino and pied. Then this is where I am iffy. I could keep a male and female 100% het albino/pied to breed later on to try for that 1/16 chance of an albino pied but if I were to purchase a visible pied het albino or an albino het pied, then the chances are better. I mean it would take a few years to do either way.

Both the 400 gram pied and my albino could probably go next year. So maybe 3 years to 4 years to do if everything goes as planned. What do you guys think?

I think a 400 gram female won't go next year