how does a person make a piebald?

[pythontricker]

how do you make a piebald ball python?

[Jay_Bunny]

You need two ball pythons that are both heterozygous for piebald. Breed them together and each offspring that the female lays has a 25% chance of being piebald.

[pythontricker]

then how do you make het piebalds?

[rabernet]

To make 100% hets, you breed a visual pied to a normal female.

To make pieds, you can do several things:
100% het to 100% het
Visual pied to 100% het
Visual pied to visual pied
or prove out possible het pieds by breeding a 100% het pied to a possible het pied, or a visual pied to a possible het pied - or if you're really wanting to play the odds, breed two possible hets together and HOPE they prove out.

This may help you:
http://www.ballpython.ca/genetics.html
Pieds are recessive

[Sputnik]

You will need a fist full of dollars!

[MarkS]

You can't really 'make' a piebald. Piebaldism is a naturally occurring recessive genetic mutation. In order to recreate the look you have to breed together two animals that already have the trait in either a homozygous form or in a heterozygous form as part of their genetic makeup.

[cassandra]

You will need a fist full of dollars!

Survey says....DIIING!

No really, check out the above link to ballpython.ca...it really helped me understand the whole genetics thing, at least at a basic level, which is pretty much all my brain can handle, hehe. =)

[drew5337]

Apply white-out to a normal.

[Patrick Long]

bake the pie, the get out your razor!!!!!!!!! hahahahahah

[Kara]

Quinton,

You may want to consider reading up on genetics & how they pertain to ball python morphs - i.e. recessive genes, co-dominant genes, and how the heterozygous & homozygous forms of each work.

Once you've got that figured out & can identify morphs as being recessive, co-dom/dom, and combos of each, the rest should fall into place fairly easily. The genetic principles don't change in terms of what they are...it just varies from morph to morph how the different genes are inherited & combined (if applicable).

Good luck!

K~