I'm breeding a pair of 25% chance het pieds this year. I could have used my 50% chance het pied male but the 25% chance het male is a new bloodline for me and is an extreme example of ringer belly (I'm told some 25% chance het pied siblings of his look like low white pieds). I like my chances for producing a pied from this pair.

Possible possible hets are sticky on the nomenclature to be sure. Unlike 50 or 66% chance het pieds where your odds of having at least one always increase with your number of possible hets the extra generation of removal from a for sure het makes a group of sibling 25% chance hets an all or nothing shot depending on if their 50% chance het parent hit or not. Still, if you had a large group of random possible possible het pieds from a large group of random 50% possible het pieds about 25% of them would be hets. Same for a large group of offspring of random 66% chance hets X normal, about 33% would be hets. Without any extra knowledge as to if the 50 or 66% possible het parent hit or not those percentages are accurate and as good a name as possible possible het. Everyone just needs to understand the situation.

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