it was sold as a pied at a local pet shop...the breeder is a local who is very small and claims the parents are both plain het pieds...I seen the father he was a normal h et pied....but never seen the mother...all the pieds from these two pairings are real orange as babies including mine, but the older they get they turn brown except for this one and one other from the clutch...she kept the female that was doing the same thing....