1.0, .4, .25, etc.? Have some questions.

[ajmreptiles]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe if you have two visually pied (or whatever recessive gene you're breeding out) parents, then all of the offspring that look normal are 100% het pied. If you have two het parents, you may get a clutch with a few visual pieds and normal looking offspring. Only 66% of those normals will carry the gene. If you breed a het pied to a normal, all of your hatchlings will look normal, but only 50% of them would be het... meaning that each hatchling has a 50% chance of carrying the pied gene.

using pied as your example
if both parents are pied then offspring will all be pieds
if 1 is pied other is het the 50% of the offspring will be pied and 50% will be 100% het
het to het will yield 25$ pied and the rest will be 66% het
het to normal will net 50% het

same goes for all recessives just using pied as the example to be a little more clear