I'm sure there were pieds in there as Greg has had several leopard pieds, leopard pastel pieds, and a couple leopard spider pieds the past few years. However, I find it doubtful that leopard is an allele of the pied gene as Joe suggested. Because the leopard mutation popped up early in the breeding with pieds, it's very likely a good number of leopards are het pied, but I don't think enough leopard breedings have been done to say that all are 100% het pied; though there may be some chance that the two genes are located close to each other on the same chromosome, and that they are more often than not inherited together. From what I've seen of the mutation though, I believe it is an entirely separate mutation that just got mixed up with pied early on and as such many leopards out there are het pied (I have seen 50% and 66% possible hets for sale).Originally Posted by JLC
Wouldn't you then see pieds pop up in clutches of leopard x leopard?
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