The odds of them all turning out normal are 0.0056377101 or about 1 in 175 chance (if my calculations are right).

It is true that each egg has a 1 in 4 chance of being albino, but this holds true for the clutch rate as well. As someone mentioned there is a bell curve, and the greater number of eggs that hatch, the closer to the 1 in 4 albino clutch rate is observed. Simple statistics dictate that the greater the N value the closer the actual outcome gets to the theoretical outcome.
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Robert Charvat
1.1 het albino Western Hognose

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• western eggs hatching today - murdoch, Tue Jul 1 22:13:01 2008
• RE: western eggs hatching today - FloridaHogs, Tue Jul 1 22:55:57 2008
• RE: western eggs hatching today - 99vengeur, Wed Jul 2 08:38:59 2008
• RE: western eggs hatching today - FloridaHogs, Wed Jul 2 10:54:19 2008
• RE: western eggs hatching today - John Q, Wed Jul 2 11:45:11 2008
• RE: western eggs hatching today - markg, Wed Jul 2 14:28:57 2008
• RE: westerns hatching today - murdoch, Wed Jul 2 21:12:06 2008
• If I remember my sadistics correctly .. - Lindsay, Thu Jul 3 10:10:55 2008
• RE: If I remember my sadistics correctl - 99vengeur, Thu Jul 3 10:35:34 2008
• RE: If I remember my sadistics correctly .. - herpsltd, Thu Jul 3 13:46:16 2008
• not a typo - Lindsay, Fri Jul 4 10:56:39 2008