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my question is if i have a male and female 66%het bred together what would the out come be? 66% offspring? 33%? im slowly catching on to genetics just need some help out on this one. also what would the offspring be for a 66% male to a normal? 33%? i plan on breeding them this year the het and normal. hopefully get mostly females..lol
all the help would be greatly appreicated.

Any het is either a 100% het or a normal. Technically, there's not a "50%" or "66%" het. It's just a way of showing that you're not sure if the snake is a het or not

If you breed 2 hets together, all the offspring that are normal looking will either be a het or a normal. Since you cannot tell the difference between them, yo call them "66%" het, because each offspring has a 2 in 3 percent chance of being a het.

If you breed a "66%" het to a normal, you're basically breeding a normal snake to a snake that MIGHT be a het, so you've probably got a normal (77% chance statistically of having a normal). Hope this helps explain.
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Jeremy Conrad
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>my question is if i have a male and female 66%het bred together what would the out come be?

The outcome would be one of the following four possible outcomes:

1. One or more pied babies come out. This means that both parents are actually heterozygous pieds (AKA 100% probability het pied). All of the normal-looking babies are 66% probability het pieds. This is the outcome you hope for. Probability of this happening is 4/9.

2. Male is a het pied and female is a normal. All the babies look normal, though some are het pied. You just don't know which ones. Probability of this happening is 2/9.

3. Male is a normal and female is a het pied. All the babies look normal, though some are het pied. You just don't know which ones. Probability of this happening is 2/9.

4. Male and female are normal and all the babies are normal. Probability of this happening is 1/9.

If you get 17 babies out of this mating, and all of them look normal, then the outcome is number 2, 3, or 4. I don't think it is worthwhile to put a percent probability of being heterozygous pied on these babies. At most I'd mark them as "second normal-looking generation out of het pieds".

Hope this helps.

Paul Hollander

If I were you I would pick up a 100% male. Then even if your female does not prove out at least you have 50% het offspring. Het males are very cheap now and I personally would not waste my time on a possible het male. It could take you a couple seasons just to figure out you have a bunch of normals if at least 1 of breeders is not 100% het.
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John Vandegrift