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And please don't say a little flour and HOT vegtable oil! My son and I are curious. Not that we would be able to do or afford doing it. Thanks

Well there is not much to the recipe. Piebald is a simple ressecive gene. So to make Pieds you could Breed Pied to Pied and get all Pied, Pied to het Pied and get 50% Pied and 50% normal Heterozygous ( carries the normal gene and the ressecive gene but does not display it) for pied, Het for Pied to Het for Pied and get 25% Pied 50% normal het for Pied and 25% just normal. The hets from the last pairing all of the normal appearing snakes would be 66% chance for being het. for Pied since you cannot visibly tell the difference between a Het. and a Normal.
Joshua Mills

It is a single simple recessive gene.
It is not a combination of genes,if that is what you may have been thinking.(They are certainly stunning enough)

...and,if you REALLY want one.
When a Piebald is bred to a normal,the offspring produced are referred to heterogenous for piebald(aka "hets" ).Which are much cheaper to obtain than the visuals of the morph.One could start a breeding project for pieds with as little as one het male hatchling and a normal yearling female for ...what are they now,$275 for a het male?
Breed the het male to a normal girl and hope you hit the 50% chance on any females hatched from them.If so,then two to three years later when you breed them back to dad...you could hatch many pieds!...or none at all...lol
(Just keep making 50% chance het females the following years too)
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Charles Glaspie

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Thanks guys. That is really simple. They do look complicated. Maybe, it is doable.