It's really very simple, Albinism in Boas is a recessive trait. For it to express or show, the offspring has to get one albino gene from each of it's parents.

Your 50% is called so because one parent was a het and half of it's offspring statistically would get an albino gene. The other parent had no albino genes and could not pass one on.

So, 50% het simply means it has a 50/50 chance of being het. It is either het or not het, just not known without breeding trials.


If it is het, then if bred to a albino...1/2 of the babies should be albino

If bred to another het, then 1/4 of the babies would be albino. You'd need a good number for the statistics to prove out, about 8 for the het to albino breeding adn about twice that for the het to het breeding. There is always the remote possibility that no albinos could be produced even if both parents each had an albino gene if the litter is small.

P.S. Even a stillborn albino would prove the parental genetics.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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