Quote Originally Posted by cchardwick View Post
Wow, that actually throws a wrench into my confidence in genetics. So you can put a male pied with a female normal and get babies, but are those babies really het pied or was it a virgin birth? I saw the same video about Brian, the only way he knew is that all three babies looked like the mom and the timing of the egg laying was too early based on when he put the male in there. But if he was breeding a recessive and the timing was right he would have never known. That really throws into question all the het recessive genes out there, more of a gamble than I thought it would be. I wonder what the odds of a virgin birth are? I've never really heard of anyone having a female snake that laid viable eggs by herself, it was the first I've ever heard about it.
I watched some of his other videos leading up to the egg cutting a few hours ago and he said something about the mother ovulating so he put a male in there to help fertilize her eggs so there could have a been a change that the eggs could have had both parents genetics but he couldn't have been 100% sure because there was only 3 eggs. They all just happened to come out like the mother. He said it was more and likely a virgin birth because of the timing the eggs where laid, and all of them may have not been fertilized, could have been why there was only 3. It does make me curious about the genetics too. Like would a 2 gene animal come from 2 1 gene animals or 1 2 gene mother and does it also cause problems with the babies being born like that. It's all pretty fascinating to me.

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