Hi guys if I breed Pastel 66%het pied X normal. Is correct to say about the result :pastel (or normal) poss het pied? Thanks
Yes and no. A 66% or 50% het is either Heterozygous or it is not. So an unproven 66% Het is not necessarily heterozygous for that mutation. If it doesnât carry the gene, then calling offspring pos het would be specifically dishonest. Since you canât be sure just list the parentage of the clutch and explain the situation if the buyer doesnât understand the simplified genetics we use in the hobby.
There was a very long and spirited discussion on this matter a year or so back. Basically it falls into two camps: those that believe that, unless the âposs hetâ animal is proven, it is unethical to use half divisions of that on subsequent offspring, versus those that believe the use of half divisions is perfectly fine.
I am firmly in the prior camp.
I remember this conversation, and am also in the âitâs unethical to call them pos hetsâ camp
I think this was it⌠Possible het input to morph calculator
I like to include the knowledge of poss hets just so that a buyer can know that somewhere down the line this snake might end up being het, but I only do it for record keeping. More of a âthese are the genetic influences of the parents for transparencyâ and less âthis snake is a pos het because its parent was a pos het.â In that case I just include the pairing in the description, that way the buyer is informed but youâre not actually claiming the animal is pos het when the parent hasnât been proven one way or the other.