breeding low white pie

[KRUGER'S KRITTER]

HI I wanted to see if some would tell me if I use a male pied that is low white will that make the babies low white. THANKs for any info

 

[SPJ]

The amount of white is random.

 

[Pasodama]

Steve is correct.
A low white can produce high white just as a high white can produce low white.
IOW It is not 100% that a low white, or high white, parent will produce all offspring with the same amount of white as they have themselves.

 

[Dale Porcher DVM]

I absolutely do not believe it to be random. I started with a high white Pied male in 2007 because that's what I liked. Using him bred to his daughters and continuing the line of high white to high white or hets made from a high white, I produced over 50 Pieds and no low whites, only high whites. Only when bred to females that were from lower white males, did he produce some medium white Pieds. Producing a visual Pied takes two copies of the Pied gene.I believe that the low white is dominant to the high white. If I have a low white Pied male who is carrying a copy of the High White Pied gene, he can produce High whites when bred to another Pied or Het also carrying the High White gene. Also I believe that definition of what "High White" needs to be established. I define it as a short neck stripe from the head, sometimes only the head and 1 or two small saddles and maybe the tail with color, the remainder white.

 

[Dale Porcher DVM]

By the same token a High White Pied when bred to a low white Pied or a Het carrying the low white Pied gene, can produce low whites, because again, I'm going on my theory that the low white is dominant to High White.

 

[SPJ]

Interesting article
http://jkrballstreetjournal.com/2014/06/19/are-piebald-patterns-truly-random/

 

[KRUGER'S KRITTER]

Thanks

Thank you all this has been very helpful

 

[KRUGER'S KRITTER]

Pic

I wanted to add a picture just to see what people thought

 

[CANIGETAXM111]

have you ever got high white and low white in the same clutch

 

[David Reid]

I had a low, low white Pied male and bred him to a couple of Het females. I never once got a low white Pied.