quick question

[JaGv]

im thinking of getting a female '12 black pastel 66% het albino to breed with my cinny when ever she is ready. my question is what % of the albino gene will the babies come out to be?

[snakesRkewl]

IMO the babies wouldn't be pos hets at all, a pos het is a pos het until proven.
Once the adult is proven then the babies become 50% pos hets.

Some people would call them 33%ers I believe

[satomi325]

I wouldn't even bother putting a % het anything to those hatchlings

[JaGv]

IMO the babies wouldn't be pos hets at all, a pos het is a pos het until proven.
Once the adult is proven then the babies become 50% pos hets.

Some people would call them 33%ers I believe

would they not carry some of the albino gene either way

[snakesRkewl]

as far as carrying albino, they either do or they don't.
You won't know if the adult does until it is bred and produces an albino.
If it does then the 66% becomes a 100% het and the offspring becomes 50% pos hets.
Until then the babies can't be considered anything but what they are visually.

[JaGv]

so to prove an offspring from a 66% ill have to breed it back to momma

[critta]

Your 66% Heterozygous albino may not be het for albino at all. They get the 66% het from breeding 2 known het albinos. So do a Punnett's square and you get 25% albino offspring, 25% normal and 50% albino. So 75% look normal and they can't tell which ones are het and which are normal but statistically 2/3 of the normal looking are het so that's why they say 66% het. You still have a 33% chance of having a normal that will never produce an albino offspring.
If it truly is het for albino though and mate it to another known het albino and 25% of the offspring come out albino yours was truly het or mate to an albino and none come out albino yours definitely wasn't het for albino because you would get 50% from mating to an albino.
Mating like you want to a snake not carrying the albino gene, because albino is recessive, you'll never know the outcome because you can't say for certain your snake truly is het for albino.

[JaGv]

a sibling from that same clutch came out albino. but either way im trying to buy it because the price is good compared to other female black pastels/cinnies and i would like to make supers when i breed it to my male cinny. who knows i might get a het albino later on and prove it out. i was just wondering what % the babies would come out so maybe i try to prove them out by breeding back to momma and get albinos.


thanks for the help tho guys

[akillian24]

maybe i try to prove them out by breeding back to momma and get albinos.

I don't know anything about breeding....Curious: Is this normal in BP breeding?

[JaGv]

I don't know anything about breeding....Curious: Is this normal in BP breeding?

im not a expert breeder but ive heard of that being done at least once