Pied is a recessive gene, which means you need two pied alleles (I think that's the right term) for it to be visual. It sounds like your male is heterozygous pied, so he has one copy of the gene/allele. If your female is het pied or a visual pied, if you breed them there is a chance of producing visual pied offspring. If she's a normal, their offspring has a chance of carrying the pied gene, but they look like normals so you'd have to hold them back and prove them out to be sure. We call those "possible hets" and a het. pied x a normal would result in 50% (chance of being) possible het. pied.
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