As the seller represents them honestly.What i'm saying is if you have an albino and breed it with a normal and get 4 eggs,one of the 4 has a chance of being 100% het as the others only have a 25% chance of being het so dont sell them all as 100%ers unless you know that for sure.Sell them as normals instead of something they're not.Thats where the honesty of the game will prove whos got it and whos just trying to get it.If you have a 66% het for albino then sell it as that and dont guarantee it.How can you guarantee something you dont know.That would be like me going to the casino and the dealer saying if you play i can guarantee you that you will win $500.He cant and he knows it but he tells me that anyway so i'll shell out the dough for the fix of gambling.Its dishonesty at its best.The same goes for hets.



A perfect example of this is in dogs.Lets say i have a german shepard and want to breed her with a male with darker colors and different patterning on the fur.They are both pure blood animals from the highest order of breeding.Now can you tell me which one is going to have the dominating genes?Oh sure you can guess but either way you have a 50/50 chance of being wrong and you also have a chance of being wrong on both counts.DNA is DNA no matter which way you slice,dice,cut,calculate or whatever.No matter how many times you calculate to try and see how many hets you will get you will always be wrong on one count or another.Thats why hets to me are no guarantee of nothing but normals.Anything below 100% het with the provided paperwork is nothing more than a normal with a very slim chance of producing anything but normals.I have a b/p male thats 66% het for albino but in my eyes he's just a normal with very little chance of ever producing albinos.To me it doesnt matter because i didnt buy him for the reproductive aspect of it,just the pet side of it.If he does by chance produce anything with either of the females i have then yay for me but if not then yay for me anyway because money isnt everything.There are more important things in life than money.



The paternity testing idea would be good if 1)it was cost effective.2)If you could figure out how to test the genetics accurately within a certain percentile.The thing i say is let nature take its course,you may not get what you want but at least theres no hassle getting what you need. Regards Bill McLeod

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