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The thing is that with piebalds being more common, that the hets are becoming relatively cheap. A 100% het pied male will run you as little as 100 bucks with some breeders, and actually I've seen them for much less. There is almost no market for 66% poss het pied males or 50% poss het pied males. Man of them get sold as normals to get rid of them and there are male het pieds out there that aren't being sold as such and he very well could be one of them and he very well could be not one of them.
If he's your beloved pet and you want to know if he's het or not, by all means try to prove him out. Or, if your goal is to produce pieds for sale, don't even try to prove him out--keep him as a pet.
Where hets are good, IMHO, is if you buy several, say four, 100% het pied girls and a visual pied male. If you breed pied to pied for the same money as it would cost to breed that male pied to four hets, every last one of the visual female's clutch will be visual, but with the het girls cranking out four clutches you get twice as many visual babies from your het group as the pied female will produce for you, and all for a few dozen extra rats and some cage cleaning.
Last edited by Redneck_Crow; 11-11-2012 at 03:23 PM.
"Why I Have Grey Hair," the story of my life:
The cast: 0.1 het pied, Minnie, "Heartless." 0.1 pied, Dorothy, "The Girl Next Door." 0.1 mojave, Lily, "Stuck Up Little Princess." 0.1 pastel yb, Marilyn, "The Bombshell." 0.1 normal, Miss Maenad, "Femme Fatale." 1.0 dinker, Darth Jackass, "Scum of the Earth." 1.0 piebald, Mickey, "A Really Nice Guy." 1.0 jigsaw, Kaa, "The Young Dude." 0.1 cinnamon, Hera, "If Looks Could Kill" 0.1 pastel, Luna, "If It Moves, Eat It"
Recently joined by Badger and Honey, 1.1 spotnoses.
...and an ever-changing host of supporting actors and actresses: rat and ASF.
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