sorry for the delay in replying to you randy, i was under a work crush.

yes, the single pied was a male. and i told you someone would do the math / odds. that sort of math does not work for me - as i lived it, so i know its quite possible.

i have a different theory - that some hets are better than others. what i do for a living could not be further than a geneticist, so i might be wrong wrong wrong - but in order to explain my gal, i have to think her pied gene is weak. through the years i've owned so many hets that give me multiple visual offspring in every clutch that to watch another true het squeeze out one in about 30 is insane if you think about it in the odds way you do. but if you think of it as faulty wiring... the n it makes a bit of sense. somehow the gene does not get passed on - i'd need a biologist to explain this better than myself, how this might possibly be the case - or to say it's not possible. in the meantime, she does not breed often for me, and at this point, i give her het offspring away for free.

i have a lot of other pied stock from all different sorts of breeders and i do well with them - as well as other forms of recessives. but this one girl is faulty, there is no other way to look at it.

to answer yr other question, i used a proven by me male het the first two times. then another proven by me male het the third time. then a visual pied male the fourth time - that gave me the one pied.

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