Champagne het pied?? Please help me out

[bustyndecka]

We recently got a Champagne and it has a white tipped tail. I'm wondering if it could be het pied.. Or if this color patch is common for Champagnes.
Please help me out, if pictures are needed just let me know, Thanks!

[Dave Green]

The white tip or small ringers are very common on champagnes. Champagne het pieds are very obvious, almost no champagne pattern and very large ringers.

These are possible het pieds but I bet they prove out.

[bustyndecka]

Thank you! The snake has pretty much no pattern, save the dorsal line. He's super clean. I just wasn't sure because I have seen so many pictures with patchiness or random patterns. So I was thinking it could just be a champagne thing.

[mwolf]

Dave, do you think my champagne shows the characteristics that you described champagne het. pieds having? He has several ringers and is virtually patternless.

He has produced a number of offspring that have had het. pied markers. I've never thought of pairing him with a pied, but do you think this would be worth trying?

Sorry for the poor picture quality, it's the only one of him on my phone.

[Dave Green]

Could be but it looks kind of dark to me and that ringer is borderline. All the ones I've seen are pretty light and ringers are very common in champagnes.

[Dave Green]

Dave, I've never thought of pairing him with a pied, but do you think this would be worth trying?

Sure, why not. If he doesn't prove out you'll hopefully get some nice champagne het pied ringers.

[mwolf]

Thanks for the advice Dave! I may have to do that pairing next season just to see what happens.