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New to Bearded Dragon breeding, and I have a few questions :D
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[QUOTE="xp29, post: 2044452, member: 114539"] First het is short for heterozygous. It means that a gene is carried but not displayed. The gene is recessive and offspring have to receive a copy from both parents for the trait associated with that gene to be displayed visually. Hypo for instance is recessive so if one parent is hypo or het hypo but the other parent isn't NONE of the offspring will be visually hypo. But there is a percentage of them that will carry the hypo gene making them het hypo. The only way to determine hets is through breeding. If you suspect a het, you would breed with a dragon that is visual for that trait or has been "proven" through breeding itself. If you get even 1 baby that is visual, you have "proven" your dragon to be het for that trait. It's best to breed het to het, there is less chance of poor genetics. You can breed het to visual and be ok to a large degree. But some visual to visual such as translucents can cause some pretty nasty birth defects or genetically weak animals and should be avoided. Some genes are dominant and offspring only need a copy from one parent for it to be displayed. Dunner, leatherback, or gentic stripe for instance are all dominant. When you breed those animals the results are clear cut. The offspring either carry it (visual) or don't (not displayed) there is no need to try to "prove" those genes out. Some of the recessive traits are: hypo, translucents, zero, witblits, and wero. Color is a whole different story. Color is like melting crayons then stirring them together. You can predict to a small degree what the blending will look like but it can vary wildly. Breeding hets has another great advantage, in example my boy Sinatra is a hypo, het trans, het zero, blue bar dunner. He is super orange and blue. My new girl Zsa Zsa is a hypo, trans, het zero, tangerine, citrus, tiger. She is insanely orange. Because they are both het zero they could produce zeros which are completely white. Dunner is dominant and they both carry a copy of all the other traits so they can reproduce any combination of ALL those traits. Looking at your dragons I don't see anything that would make breeding them an issue, but without knowing their exact gentics it's impossible to predict what traits they would produce. [/QUOTE]
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