It is a single simple recessive gene.
It is not a combination of genes,if that is what you may have been thinking.(They are certainly stunning enough)

...and,if you REALLY want one.
When a Piebald is bred to a normal,the offspring produced are referred to heterogenous for piebald(aka "hets" ).Which are much cheaper to obtain than the visuals of the morph.One could start a breeding project for pieds with as little as one het male hatchling and a normal yearling female for ...what are they now,$275 for a het male?
Breed the het male to a normal girl and hope you hit the 50% chance on any females hatched from them.If so,then two to three years later when you breed them back to dad...you could hatch many pieds!...or none at all...lol
(Just keep making 50% chance het females the following years too)
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