Quote Originally Posted by Ladydragon
okay... I've been trying to figure this out, but cant seem to.
.....what would happen if I bred the het albino to a het pied?
I think I would get all normals, but would half be het for pied and half for albino or?
and what would happen if I breed a pied to an albino? would the offspring be half pied, half albino, or all normals het for both, or would I get the chance of getting an albino pied too?

and would these "rules" apply to most other morphs?
When breeding any het, each individual offspring has a 50% chance on inheriting the recessive gene from each parent. With a pair of het albinos this results in a 25% chance to hatch an albino, and a 75% of not (obviously). All the normal looking offspring would be considered 66% poss hets, meaning they have a 2/3 chance of being carriers.

When breeding hets of two different recessive traits, each parent still has a 50% chance of passing on the recessive gene, so all offspring would be considered 50% het for each trait, and have a 25% of being het for both. The actual breakdown of the pair in question is:

25% - normal
25% - het pied
25% - het albino
25% - double het

Since you don't know what is what, they are all poss. double hets. When two possible double het siblings (from above pairing) are bred together, you have a 1/16 of both parents being double hets, then each egg will have a 1/16 chance of inheriting both sets (all 4) of recessive genes. Breeding for double recessive combos with two het parents is a long road to possibly nothing spectacular. It can also be a fun gamble, with other possiblities down the road (proving out the poss hets for each trait). Just don't bet the farm on it.

Hope that helps.

-Evan