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Hi again,
I was just cruising the classifieds and came across an ad for a 100% het albino female... the parents being a female albino X male het.
I was under the impression that the pairing would produce albinos, hets and normals; therefore... wouldn't that female be a possible het, since there is really no definite way to tell the hets from normals?
I'm still new to this... Thanks for the help!
Steph S.

If you breed an albino to a 100% het, you would produce albino's and 100% het albinos only. All normal looking animals would be 100% het albino due to the mother being an albino.

Thanks

Joe

J & S Reptiles
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Joe Deavers
J & S Reptiles
http://www.jandsreptiles.net

Right - that's why you see some percentages like 66% commonly...

Because a het albino x het albino breeding would produce 25% albino, 50% het albino, and 25% normal snakes, but since you can't tell for certain which are het albino and which are normal by looking, it's more like 25% albino and 75% "possible" hets. The percentage of any one of the normal looking snakes would be 2 out of 3 , which is 66%.

But an albino x het albino pairing DEFINITELY gives all 'normal' looking snakes the albino gene, making all non-albinos in the litter 100% het for albino, with no question.

Albino x normal, for example, gives all 100% het for albino babies, since the albino only has albino genes to pass to the offspring.

Hope this helps! When you see other percentages aside from 100% or 66%, more than likely it's because one of the parents was only a "possible" het, and not a 100% het for albino animal, and the breeder didn't prove them out yet.

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Lauren Madar - OphidiaGems.com | CageMakers
1.0 BP, 1.0 Hog Is., 1.1 Hypo BCI, 1.1 Surinam BCC, 0.1 GTP

Albinism in boas is a recessive trait, that means both genes in that gene pair must be albino for the trait to show.

An albino boa (both genes in the pair albino) would ALWAYS pass on an albino gene no matter which gene was passed on.

A het albino boa (one each normal and albino genes in the gene pair) will pass on the albino gene half of the time and the normal one the other half of the time.

So from that pairing, every baby would get an albino gene fron the albino parent. Half would also get an albino gene from the het parents and be albinos since they have two albino genes. The other half of the babies would get a normal gene from the het parent and would look normal since the have one albino gene paired with a normal one and would be het albinos.

>>If you breed an albino to a 100% het, you would produce albino's and 100% het albinos only. All normal looking animals would be 100% het albino due to the mother being an albino.
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>>Thanks
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>>Joe
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>>J & S Reptiles
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>>Joe Deavers
>>J & S Reptiles
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

That really helped, I knew albino x normal would produce entirely hets, and that het X het was a percentage of hets, normals and albinos... but wasn't sure about the albino X het; thank you so much for those who explained in such great detail... One day I will master the punnet square!
Thanks!
Steph S.