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Old 24-04-2008, 08:45 PM
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66%'s are pointless anyway, why bother?

But yeah, it's like everyone said Faith, from the '4 egg rule' with a recessive or het put to a recessive or het, you will get 1 visual, 2 100% hets, 1 normal, the two hets are indistinguishable from the hets so you class them all as 'possible' hets, givin you the 66%.
Although these percentages do not actually tell you how many of each you will get, but what the chances are for each individual. So there is a 50% chance in this example that each individual will be 100% het. It doesn't mean that you will get 2 100% hets for every four eggs. The percentages apply to each individual and it has no affect on any future hatchlings, they also go through the same thing with the same percentages (assuming it's the same parents).
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:43 PM
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...and don't forget that its a 66% chance of EACH young being het, not 66% of the whole clutch being het. this means you may get really unlucky and get no hets whatsoever, or lucky and end up with all hets
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:54 PM
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...and don't forget that its a 66% chance of EACH young being het, not 66% of the whole clutch being het. this means you may get really unlucky and get no hets whatsoever, or lucky and end up with all hets
Yay! Thank you. Everywhere I go, I see people telling others that their clutch will be 50% this and 50% that.
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Old 25-04-2008, 10:01 PM
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its quite simple when you look at a punnet square. a 66% het is the normal looking baby from the breeding of 2 100% het animals. a quarter are visual, half are 100% het and a quarter are normal with no hets. so of the normal looking babies. you have a 2 in 3 chance you'll have yourself a 100% het baby so it is expressed as 66% het
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Old 26-04-2008, 04:58 PM
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im SO glad im crestie breeding..

IM crap at percentages..
if anyone ever works out crestie genetics please dont tell me..

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