genetics 100% chance

[Adam_Wysocki]

if you were to breed two het albinos and they had a clutch of 4 eggs. is it a 100% chance that you would get one albino out of that?

Not at all ... each egg only has a 25% chance of producing an albino. In a 4 egg clutch it's something like a 32% chance that you won't get an albino from a het x het breeding (Randy, was I close???).

i was talking to some ppl and they were saying even if you breed 2 albinos together the chance of getting an albino is rare.

That's not true. ALL of the offspring from albino x albino will be albinos. Don't talk to those people anymore, they are idiots.

but most of the time when you breed certain animals can you tell what you should be expecting?

Oh no ... don't "count" on anything. I bred a co-dom male to a female that laid 12 eggs last year, and every single one was normal .... I think there's like a .02% chance of that happening ... and it DID!!! Mother nature has a way of putting you in check every now and then.

For the most part, things end up working out in the big picture ... but counting on individual eggs and individual clutches is like rolling the dice!

-adam