I herd a while ago that if you breed a pied to a pied, you will only get hets. Is it true? Is it just a defect of the morph?
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Is it true?
Matt97bps
Apr 28, 2011 10:40 PM
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evansnakes
Apr 28, 2011 11:15 PM
no, it is a simple recessive, if you breed pied to pied you get 100% pied offspring.
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kingofspades
Apr 29, 2011 12:25 AM
I'm not saying this as an insult to you...but that doesn't even make sense...
Having two copies of the recessive pied gene, a pied can only throw the pied gene.
If both parents are throwing the pied gene only...all the babies will have 2 copies and be pieds.
Whoever told you this is...wrong.
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Matt97bps
Apr 29, 2011 09:19 AM
That is what i thought when i heard this, and I guess they were wrong.
DeHart
Apr 29, 2011 09:41 AM
Most likely who'ever you heard this from had confused BP pieds with sand boa "pieds"/"splashes" that are, as far as I know, still being proven out. I've read that in KSB's with one splash parent ("het"
all appear normal and should carry the gene, but when two of these "hets" are bred together way fewer than the expected 25% of offspring are "splash." I'm not sure what happens when breeding splash to splash, or why hets don't produce the numbers, but in BP's it's straight recessive and pretty predictable outcomes.
