Pied Mom Passed on Some of her Good Looks

so my Pied girl Nessarose had a clutch of 7 eggs and they hatched out like a week ago. as the babies began to pip and emerge from the eggs, i noticed that all the visual Pieds and Pied combos (save for 1) have her eye stripe and crown that leads to a dorsal stripe or attempted dorsal stripe down the neck. can this be genetic? i'm a fan of this look and i picked out Nessarose for this pattern - the eye stripe crown and long dorsal stripe. they also have mom's blushed headstamp!

(dad is a Black Pastel het Pied)

this was #1 outta the egg. i drew the pattern i'm talking about in yellow and the eyes in red.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/UDwoPmZ.jpg

see what i mean? u can't see it, b/c of glare, but she also has the blushed headstamp.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/Tnz50TU.png


anyways here's the whole clutch from the other day. they made a big mess and shed out over the weekend.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/n3wax1c.jpg




#1 outta the egg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/trJztnW.jpg



https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/Olcvrv9.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/mysYgNN.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/KKOEFea.jpg




and here's Nessarose, the mom. she's 200-something grams in this pix. see her blushed head stamp, eye stripe crown and long dorsal stripe? i always referred to her pattern as a cape b/c it covers like a third of her body and it looks like shes covered in a cape to me.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/uzbgQ5h.jpg


here she was in the grass last summer. she's like 1600grams here.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/YTuC4DY.jpg


and here she is under some crappy lighting. this was the day after she laid her eggs. she's flat and weighed less than 1400grams but she's already approaching 2000grams today.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/tUiRI3P.jpg

Dang talk about gorgeous!! I always thought pieds were super elegant. First little girl definitely has me head over heels and it's really neat to see her taking after her mom with the blushing!

I do love the bandit masks :D

The third one has a pursed smiling face on its back!

Great clutch, they do look very similar to their gorgeous mother:gj: both parents are fabulous and made magnificent wee little babes you must be very proud. :gj::gj::gj:

I’ll take #2 and #4 please. Very nice.

My gods they are beautiful!

HOTTTTTT!!!! Dang!

Very beautiful, love the head marking/cape. Thanks for sharing Ax.

Wow, mom has an unusually long stripe for a piebald> is there are any other genes at play beside pied going on with her?