So how do you determine if something is other then 100% het. What are the circumstances where it would be 66% or 50% or possible hets.
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A 66% or 50% het means that there is a 66% or 50% chance that the animal in question is het for the gene.
If you crossed a 100% het pied to a normal, the offspring would be 50% hets.
If you crossed two snakes that were both 100% het for pied, you would (theoretically) get 1/4 visual piebalds, and the rest would be labeled as 66% hets.
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If you pair: Piebald x OD Butter 100% DG
You would get babies that were 100% het pied & 50 % het DG? Right?
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Yes you are correct!!!
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So, if you get a OD Butter Desert Ghost I think 50 % het pied baby?
When it gets old enough to breed to a Desert Ghost.
What are the odds of getting a OD Butter Desert Ghost out of that clutch of lets say 6 eggs? It will cut down the percent of pied in it too, I think, because the Desert Ghost is not het pied. I’m trying to get my percentages right in the recessive morphs and the odds of what the babies will be when they hatch.
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So basically if a baby is 50% het if it turns out that it’s not het you have zero chance. If it turns out it is het then one in 4 will be dg so 25% Once you figure out if it’s a het or not the percentage means zero. Does that make any sense. I’m not the best splainer on here lol. Het to het 25% will come out visual and het to visual 50% will come out visual. Visual x visual all visual
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The less % you have in the recessive gene the less likely the babies will be pied or whatever recessive gene your working with?
But I will still have a 1 in 4 chance that I will get a OD Butter Desert Ghost whether
it will prove out to be het pied or not? If I am understanding correctly.
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Correct
The less likely they will be het for the recessive gene correct! Visual is always a visual no percentages needed lol
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woohoo!!
I get it !!
I am so proud of my old self.
Thank You!
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I’m proud someone actually understands my explanation!!! I usually need Travis to back me up lol. The genetics are that hard once you get the basic grasp of them!!! You will get there!!!
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Yes, 50% or 66% het only applies to unproven animals.
If you take your 50% poss het pied and breed it with a pied, you will hopefully prove the animal out. If you get even a single visual pied baby, you’ve proven your 50% poss het pied to in fact be 100% genuinely het pied.
It can get a little crazy with Royals though due to the small clutch sizes. With a clutch of only 6 eggs, you can just have rubbish luck and get all visual normals. With a clutch of 20+ corn snake eggs you get more goes on the genetic slot machine to prove out your possible het.
I hate making possible hets, so I try to pair up to make visuals and 100% hets.
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There are words in some of the explanations that I have to look up to understand what they are talking about… If it is explained in simple terms or country terms or is shown to me in a visual picture of what they are talking about. I can understand it. The morph calculator doesn’t do 66% or 50% hets etc. So that is why I had to ask about it. All of you veterans that have been into breeding BP’s for a while know pretty much what the outcomes will be when pairing BP morphs together. I will read and try to understand everyone’s explanations. but some I understand better than others. I understood what you were telling me.
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I’m born and raised in Missouri and lived in Georgia 4 years I’m very fluent in country!!! Any questions you ever have feel free to ask!
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Yes, I get that too. I will try to get het for pied and desert Ghost in my females when I buy them. I have Found out the more het’s or genes you have in BP’s the more they cost.
But if I have to go the long way around, it will just be more experience in the breeding process and the figuring out which BP’s to breed to get the desired traits I want. I will learn more hands on genetics.
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Doesn’t matter which way you take as long as you have fun getting there!!!
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I am sure I will have a lot of fun. I find new morph combos every day that I would love to make. I will be there one day. Well I like 45 minutes, then I will be off work. Has been nice talking to you. TTYL
Thanks again
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words
When you breed a visual to a wild-type, all the babies are 100% het
When you breed two hets together, the non visual animals are 66% possible het because, according to the statistics, for every three wild-type looking animals you have, two should/could carry the mutant gene
If you breed a het to a wild-type, all the babies look wild-type but, statistically, half carry the mutant gene. So all the babies are 50% possible het
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@t_h_wyman is the second picture supposed to have a hh?
This is what you said
Because a het to normal there would be no visual possibility.
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The best explanation I could read!
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Oh son of a motherless goat!!!
A het x het pairing would be Hh x Hh. I apparently had a typo in there that I had missed. Went back and corrected that. Thanks for the catch 
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