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I was just wondering how to produce albino cal kingsnakes like I have an Albino male and A het albino Female what will the babies come out like? also was wondering if I bred my het albino to a regular cal king what would the babies look like? Thanks for your help
Wayne

>>I was just wondering how to produce albino cal kingsnakes like I have an Albino male and A het albino Female what will the babies come out like? also was wondering if I bred my het albino to a regular cal king what would the babies look like? Thanks for your help
>>Wayne

HI Wayne,

First of all, there are two types of albino cal kings, so if you were to breed even one of those albinos X the other kind, all the babies would look normal. Assuming you have a visual (homozygous) albino and a het of the same kind, if you breed them together half the babies will be albinos (over a large statistical sample) and half will be hets. If you breed a het x a "normal" all the babies will look like normals. Half will be hets, but there will be no way for you to tell without test-breeding them.

if you want to know more, and to know some of the "why" instead of just the cut-and-dry answers above, you might want to read my genetics page at:
http://www.albinotricolors.com/genetics.html

if you find things there that confuse you please let me know--there's an email form on the site--so I can improve it.

peace
terry dunham
albino tricolors