How common is the train tracks marking for het pieds?

[Mike41793]

I proved two 25% het pied girls last summer that where held back because of the markers followed through two generations.

How do you get 25% het pied snakes? What were the parents?

[Brandon Osborne]

How do you get 25% het pied snakes? What were the parents?

My guess would be breeding a 50% pos het to a normal....which would have made his 50% pos het an actual 100% het.

[mangopixie]

If your snake is a female it wouldnt hurt to try and prove her out. If its a male I dont think its worth the time and effort to prove out a 66% het, hets are really cheap and visuals are even coming down quite a bit, I would rather invest in one of them before I proved out a 66% het male.

My snake was sold to me as male, but just recently I had someone with more experience than me pop 'him' and he thinks it's female! I had tried popping before and could never see anything, but I assumed that was just me being a noob. So if this is a female maybe I will be proving her out...

[Brandon Osborne]

My snake was sold to me as male, but just recently I had someone with more experience than me pop 'him' and he thinks it's female! I had tried popping before and could never see anything, but I assumed that was just me being a noob. So if this is a female maybe I will be proving her out...

Popping is only a good indicator of males. "Females" that do no pop should always be probed.....meaning you can't pop females and you can't always pop males. Taking someone's word on a popped female will always get you in trouble.

[mangopixie]

Ya, I realize that at this point I simply don't know the sex

[RandyRemington]

I started my pied project with three 50% chance het pied males and normal females. I noticed that two of the males had the markers. By the time I finally produced clutches from them with about half markered 25% chance het girls the markers had become public (but still took years to be generally accepted, if even still not universally). I was a big enough believers in the markers to ended up using several other 25% and 50% chance males for new blood while I was waiting for the first markered 25% chance het girls to grow up. It only took me 10 years to produce pieds but last summer I finally got them from a markered 50% chance het pied male to two different markered 25% chance het females.