As a biologist, I again have to jump in here as I often do in these what-if genetics scenarios. Forwhatever reason, it kind of irks me when people respond the way most do (I certainly do not mean any offense, it just bothers me for some reason). You can not say that you would get half hets and half albinos...or about 50% het and about 50% albinos. This is a huge misaplication of genetic principals. You can not use punnet square percentages to make any prediction about future offspring. All you can do is say that EACH INDIVIDUAL EGG has a 50% chance of being a het and a 50% chance of being an albino. To some this may be seen as splitting hairs, but this is an important thing to understand. While it is true that over the long haul, a pairing's offspring may approach the ratios commonly stated, we have to remember that these ratios apply to each individual offspring and not a clutch or population as a whole.

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