How much does a piebald cost?

[Kinra]

But I'm planning to sell the babies, not breeding them. How much do you think each pied baby could cost on the next year spring?

Another quick question: If I reproduce a het vs het, the normal babies also carry the recessive het gene right?

No one can tell you how much a pied will sell for next spring. As I said it changes drastically. This time last year pieds were selling for $800-1000 and now they are selling for $500-600. It could go up this year or it could drop more. That is why no one can tell you how much they will sell for. There is a LOT you need to consider before breeding your snakes and not just how much the babies will sell for, such as what will you do with the babies before they sell. Can you afford to feed them all until they sell? Can you house them all? Have you considered that people are leery of buying hets from unknowns and there is a good chance you are going to have some trouble selling those?

100% het pied male bred to a 100% het pied female has a 25% chance per egg of producing a visual. You may not get any pieds, you may get a lot of pieds. It's all chance and we can only tell you statistically what the outcome should be in a perfect world. All the normal looking babies are called 66% het pieds because statistically every 2 out of 3 of them will be het pieds.

100% het pied male bred to a normal female will produce 50% het pieds because there is a 50% chance each baby carries half of the genetic code to produce a pied. That means in the perfect world half of the babies are normals and half are het pieds. You CANNOT tell the difference between a het and a normal.