What do you guys think?...

[loye_86]

I have a female that I have been told has a possibility of producing piebald offspring (i will add her pic at the end) and am wondering do you think if I breed her to a 100% het pied male...do you think i could get pied babies?

here she is...

 

[SPJ]

If you are thinking she is a het pied because of the white markings, she is not. Those appear to be healed injuries.

 

[loye_86]

No, actually it is the color of her scales. When I first got her I thought they were scars too, but its her scales. She has them down both sides. I did not assume that she was het pied...that's what i have had numerous python people tell me.

 

[SPJ]

There is no way to tell a het from looking at a snake.
Those scales and pattern look nothing like what a pied would look like.
I tend to think they are white scales due to an injury being healed. Once healed, the new scales are either white or black.

 

[ShaffersExoticHerps]

There is signs that you can see on some hets. One thing to look for on a het pied is on the underside of the snake. There can be black stripes on the sides of the belly. They will be unbroken stripes and fairly long.

 

[Halley]

Piebald is a recessive gene, you will se no pieball charatrisitics in a het. If you breed her to a 100% het Piaball male, you will get 100%, 50% het Piebald, animals. If she does end up beign het piebald. You will get 25% piebald, and 75% Normal, 66% het Piebald.

 

[ShaffersExoticHerps]

You can see characteristics in a pieball het. The black striping like I mentioned before. They won't always have it, but sometimes they do.

 

[thegeckoguy]

that looks like a ball ive seen before.....i think its called....a...calico! thats it. They look sorta like that

 

[Nigel4less]

I honestly don't think its a Het Pied or a Calico, I think it is just a ringer or a paradox. But hey you never know it could be a Het or not. I think its worth a try.

Attached is a pic of a Genetic calico.