Morphs percentages

[Cubby23]

Ok so I'm getting a pair of het albinos and I know that when I breed them the chance to get an albino is 25%. Does that mean I am absolutely going to get one albino if I only had 4 eggs? Would it be possible to have 4 eggs and none of those be albinos? What are your experiences with small clutches and hets breeding.

[JLC]

What it means is that EACH EGG has a 25% chance of hatching as an albino. You are not guaranteed one albino out of every four eggs.

EDIT: In other words, it's possible to have a whole clutch of eggs that turn out to look normal (they'll all be possible hets for albino)...and it's theoretically possible to hatch out all albinos.

[Adam_Wysocki]

Ok so I'm getting a pair of het albinos and I know that when I breed them the chance to get an albino is 25%. Does that mean I am absolutely going to get one albino if I only had 4 eggs? Would it be possible to have 4 eggs and none of those be albinos? What are your experiences with small clutches and hets breeding.

I've had 12 eggs from Pastel x Normal yield no pastels and 11 eggs from Lesser x Normal yield nine lessers.

4 eggs from het albino x het albino give me 3 albinos and 7 eggs from het hypo x het hypo give me 1 hypo.

It's all up to the ball gods ... there are no guarantees.

-adam

[Tony2Dogs]

Nope, I had 7 eggs two years ago and 9 the year before that from albino hets
and got 00000 albinos. Its all a roll of the dice.

[cueball]

Nope, I had 7 eggs two years ago and 9 the year before that from albino hets
and got 00000 albinos. Its all a roll of the dice.

Well that's a pretty solid

Any chance in your mind that they are not hets?

[Cubby23]

Well I guess I better start praying. I hope I get lucky. I'll also make sure my female is as large and healthy as possilble.

[elevatethis]

Nope, I had 7 eggs two years ago and 9 the year before that from albino hets
and got 00000 albinos. Its all a roll of the dice.

That smells funny. Were the parents 100% hets (i.e. proven possible hets or offspring from albino x normal)? Where did you get you "hets" from?

[Tony2Dogs]

"Any chance in your mind that they are not hets?"

I gave them to my brother and the next year he got two that year. And 1 the year after.

My luck!

[elevatethis]

11 eggs from Lesser x Normal yield nine lessers.

I hope you had a change of shorts when you opened up that egg box...

[Adam_Wysocki]

Nope, I had 7 eggs two years ago and 9 the year before that from albino hets
and got 00000 albinos. Its all a roll of the dice.

I would be calling the guy that sold them to me.

The odds of missing a homozygous animal in a het to het breeding with 16 eggs total is .... 1 in 100 ... possible, but not likely.

-adam