Percentage Hets

These can often be confusing to people who've never bred animals or are new to the hobby. Percentage hets is basically the percent chance that an animal is heterozygous for a recessive gene. Holloway Herps has had 66% het Paints for sale for a few years, and recently the first paints that wernt produced by Jeff Holloway were born, a few of the litters were from those possible hets! Babies that are possible hets are produced from animals that are already het themselves. 66% hets are from het x het pairings, and 50% hets are from het x not hets. Het to het looks like this, we'll use albino as an example; Na x Na. You would get NN, Na, Na, aa. This means that 3/4 of the babies have normal phenotypes, but not all of them are heterozygous for albino. Two thirds, or 66% are, hence 66% het. Het x NotHet looks like NN x Na, meaning you would get NN and Na. All of the babies would have normal phenotypes, but only half would actually be het albino, hence 50% albino.