Quote Originally Posted by Brimstone111888 View Post
You are thinking het means RECESSIVE, which it does not. A Het pastel is a normal pastel. Since it only has one pastel gene it is heterozygous. We don't use the extra word of "het" with pastel since it is unnesscessary, as the pastel gene is co-dom, therefore visual.

Het clown = Normal ball with 1 clown gene
Since clown is recessive the clown gene is not expressed in the phenotype

Het pastel = Normal ball with 1 pastel gene or commonly called a Pastel

Sicne pastel is co-dom the pastel gene is expressed in the phenotype.
Your arguement is that a visual pastel is a Het Pastel. That to me is erroneous for this reason. How can you be Het for being visual considering it is a co-dom morph? The whole definition of co-dom is that there are normals and there are Pastels. Black and White, no grey in the middle.

Why use that definition when it is SO misleading?

I can understand where the arguement for a Pastel being het for SUPER pastel, but a normal pastel being het Pastel is not really semantically correct to me....