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Does anyone know if the amount of white on the adult male or female piebald predicts the amount of white on the babies? Is the amount of white genetic? I have been told that a very low white pied can produce high white babies . . . is this true?

Thanks for your help.

Alice

What was told to you is true.
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RicK @ BbI

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But how many female pieds have produced babies to base that on? I heard it wasn't genetic right from the start and I guess the first cb piebalds where from piebald X piebald but I still doubt there have been more than a handful of piebald X piebald clutches so far. If they are basing it on piebald X het breedings you really don't know what genetics the het has as far as how white it would be if it where homozygous so maybe even with the variability there may still turn out to be a genetic component. Then again it may all be random like fingerprint pattern. Something to keep an eye on as pieds become more commonly bred.

Then again...even twins from the same egg...identical do not have the same pattern
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Michael Enriquez

ok this is from het x het same parents......
I produced 2.3 all different in amount of white.
Perhaps the white is random.

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The het breedings sure do make it look random and I suppose it is. To be sure will like to see if some day someone has tried to breed groups of high white homozygous piebalds together and the same with groups of low white piebalds and not seen any difference in the offspring.

But wouldn't that then mean that most of the babies in a het to het or het to homo breeding have around the same degree of white? I've seen clutches with almost full white babies and almost no white babies in the same clutch. So if it were genetic would the genetics of each parent of the animals you are breeding determine how much white is on each baby? Say you have a het to het breeding...one of the parents of them were high white and the other low white...could it then act as sort of a dominant gene...resulting in low whites from one side of the breeding and high whites from the other animal?

I think its just random...
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Luke Martin
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