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I'm getting a 66% het male soon and I was just wondering if someone could break down the whole het thing again. I've read it a few times but never remember exactly how it works. How do you even end up with 66% hets? And if I breed him to a 100% het female as opposed to just a normal female, how much better are my chances of producing albinos? I know obviously much greater. Retics are the only albino snakes I like and it would be great to have some. I know I sound like a beginner right now but I've kept snakes for 20 years, so sorry for the stupid question. But I'm also not a breeder. And I'm sure there are people on here that can recite ratios and percentages and genetic info off the tops of their heads with no problems. Thanks alot for any comments or information.

Basically,

Het means they carry the recessive gene. It taks a recessive from each parent to make the trait appear in a baby. 66% het means there is a 66% chance that your animal carries the recessive gene. Therefore...your animal has a 34% chance of not carrying the gene...soooooo....if you breed it to a 100% het animal...there is a 35% chance that none of the babies will appear albino...because your 66% het, isn't really a het at all, but a normal...

I hope that helps?

S~

66% het means basically that there is a 66% chance that the snake will be het for a particular trait. This figure is determined by the odds that 2 out of every 3 of the snakes from such a litter will be het (statistically speaking). But the ones that prove to be hets are in fact 100% het. Only you don't know this until you breed them and see the offspring. If you breed a 66% chance het male to a 100% het female and you get 25% offspring with the trait you are seeking then he is thus proven to be 100% het. If all the babies are normal in appearance then this means that he was the 33% minority that were completely normal. If he is in fact het then 25% of your clutch will show the trait and the other 75% will not show the trait. Of those that do not show the trait, 2/3 are statistically het (66% het). See how it works?

>>I'm getting a 66% het male soon and I was just wondering if someone could break down the whole het thing again. I've read it a few times but never remember exactly how it works. How do you even end up with 66% hets? And if I breed him to a 100% het female as opposed to just a normal female, how much better are my chances of producing albinos? I know obviously much greater. Retics are the only albino snakes I like and it would be great to have some. I know I sound like a beginner right now but I've kept snakes for 20 years, so sorry for the stupid question. But I'm also not a breeder. And I'm sure there are people on here that can recite ratios and percentages and genetic info off the tops of their heads with no problems. Thanks alot for any comments or information.
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