I have three 100% het males (hypo, pied, clown). I probably at this point plan to pick up a 100% het hypo female and a 100% het pied female.

For example, when I breed the two 100% het pieds together, each egg has a 25% probability of being pied, 25% probability of being a normal and a 50% probability of being a het.

Assuming a 4 egg clutch, statistically, 1 would be pied and of the three remaining normal appearing offspring, 2 (or 66%) of the remaining three could be het - so all three have a 66% shot of being het. You won't know which ones would be normal and which would be het - so you'd have to raise them to breeding weight to prove them out by either breeding the females back to dad, or to a visible pied.

Now with my het clown - I plan to breed him to a normal female and keeping all his female offspring. Each of them have a 50% shot of actually being het - so I'd raise them all up and breed them back to Dad to try to proove them out (producing a visible clown as a result).

Remember too, that sometimes they don't prove out in their first season, and could still be het, so you'd need to breed them at least one more time before concluding that they are het or normal. Even IF none of them proved out - you know have breedable weight females - who are valuable in any breeder's collection!

Bottom line - choose a breeder who you trust when purchasing hets. Always check out a breeder on Fauna BOI if you're not familiar with them.