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het pied mated to het albino
what should the out come be please
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carrotaildreams

All the babies will look normal. Statistically, 1/4 will have normal genes, 1/4 will be heterozygous pied, 1/4 will be heterozygous albino, and 1/4 will be both heterozygous pied and heterozygous albino. Unfortunately, only a breeding test will tell what genes a particular baby actually has.

Paul Hollander

cheers paul , it was what i was thinking,
All the babies will look normal, thought some may look slighty diff,
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carrotaildreams

wouldn't the het pieds have belly markers?

How reliable are the belly markers? Somewhere I got the impression that they were not reliable.

Paul Hollander

Could be I got the other impression.Not sure though matbe someone with more experience could help.

>>All the babies will look normal. Statistically, 1/4 will have normal genes, 1/4 will be heterozygous pied, 1/4 will be heterozygous albino, and 1/4 will be both heterozygous pied and heterozygous albino. Unfortunately, only a breeding test will tell what genes a particular baby actually has.

Actually, a het to "normal" breeding makes 50% "possible" hets.

This means that statistically half the babies will be het.

So in this scenario 50% will statistically will be het pied, 50% statistically will be het albino. I don't know how to describe the normals. Some of the "hets" could be "double hets".

I hope this helps.
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