Any way to tell 100% Het Pied ?

[pythonmdk]

I heard that what happend is somewhere early on the pied trait got linked to the belly markings, its not 100% but hey, what is.

[peterm15]

Originally posted by HetForHuman
Corey Woods

thanks alot tim

[peterm15]

sorry guys im on a screwy lap top it clicked for me

[peterm15]

this has got to be a record

[peterm15]

sorry quad post

[RandyRemington]

I don't think yellow belly would be an example of the same thing. As far as I know, the hets for Ivory are always yellow bellies making it consistently a co-dominant trait. What we are talking about with pied and the burms is a trait that is considered recessive but sometimes has co-dominant tendencies.

Perhaps the "pied het marker" is a separate linked gene but to me it looks so much like pied trying to creep up from the belly that I wonder if it isn't the actual pied gene doing it. I believe that pieds always have white bellies and the white dorsal areas creep up from the belly at the edges. Also the two black lines in the "normal" areas on pieds might correspond with the black lines at the edge of the belly in the het markers.