Quote Originally Posted by SiscoReptiles
When a pied ball is bred to a normal you will mathmatically get half that are '100% het' and half that are 'not het', but you can't visually tell which is which, that all look normal. So if you reach in and pick one of them up, that one is 50% likely to be 100% het. So, it's called 50% het.

Rick

Are you saying if you breed a visually pied ball to a normal you will get half that ARE het and half that are not het?


I was under the impression that since a visually pied ball has 2 genes for the pied that when bred with a normal ALL of there offspring will be 100% het for pied and obviously not showing just looking like a normal.

Its when you breed one of the 100% het pieds to a normal that the offspring are 50% het because some will be 100% het and some will be normal there by making the percentage of 50%. But there is no way to tell who is het and who isn't visually... only breeding them out over time will tell.