Albino question

Agathorn

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So if I have an Albino mother and a normal father, and some of the babies born are albino and some aren't, do the ones that aren't albino carry the recessive gene? Does this make them more valuable on the market?
 

Dae

Dae
All the babies carry the white gene since one of the parent is white. As for the market value, it's all about trust since there's nothing visible for the heterozygous babies. And even if bred with a white animal, there's a 50% chance of getting heterozygous babies again and it will depend on luck.
 

Veranel

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I have an albino female peafowl but all of her offspring (2 generations) have been normal. Am I just really unlucky or is it really just random? I dont want to waste my time on breeding the albino peafowl if its not even possible to control it.
 

Kai

Kai
Veranel said:
I have an albino female peafowl but all of her offspring (2 generations) have been normal. Am I just really unlucky or is it really just random? I dont want to waste my time on breeding the albino peafowl if its not even possible to control it.
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Are you breeding her to another albino? If not you're going to need to inbreed her to her babies (or buy an albino male).
 

Veranel

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I was inbreeding her with her normal babies. She gave birth 2 times to normal chicks with inbreeding when I gave up. :(
 

Dae

Dae
In your case there is theoretically 50% chance for each baby to be albinos (I obviously don't know what the devs did with the coding). I would say you've been unlucky.
 

Veranel

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Ill try again then today.
What about her babies btw? I made her babies who I think carry the albino gene, breed with normal peafowls? Is the chance also 50%? Because their offspring was normal aswell.
 

Kai

Kai
I think you would need to be breeding the babies (direct from the albino mother) together to have any chance of an albino. Personally I had very little luck outside of breeding albinos to albinos. Peacocks are super cheap so it's probably easier to just save up and just buy a pair of albino animals to breed together.
 

Dae

Dae
Theoretical breeding rules:

Albino x albino >>> 100% albino
Albino x normal >>> 100% carriers
Albino x carrier >>> 50% albino 50% carrier
Carrier x carrier >>> 50% carrier 25% normal 25% albino
carrier x normal >>> 50% normal 50% carrier
 

Kai

Kai
Dae said:
Theoretical breeding rules:

Albino x albino >>> 100% albino
Albino x normal >>> 100% carriers
Albino x carrier >>> 50% albino 50% carrier
Carrier x carrier >>> 50% carrier 25% normal 25% albino
carrier x normal >>> 50% normal 50% carrier
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I've actually had a normal baby from double albino parents once, so their breeding system may well be a bit buggy (like everything else). :p
 

Dae

Dae
What I wrote is usual genetics rules, I don't know what the devs coded (like for so many other things) and there indeed may be bugs, or simply if you consider albinism being a genetic mutation you could have had babies that mutated back to normal gene...
 

Annageckos

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I bought a white peafowl and he's only thrown me three white offspring. He was with a bunch of normal females. I've had him for a while, he's nearing the end now, luckily I have a white male and female currently from him.
 

Kai

Kai
Dae said:
What I wrote is usual genetics rules, I don't know what the devs coded (like for so many other things) and there indeed may be bugs, or simply if you consider albinism being a genetic mutation you could have had babies that mutated back to normal gene...
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Well it's definitely a thing. Just had this pop up, so now I'm 100% sure. There's only one breeding pair in that enclosure (both variants), but the baby has the normal colouration.

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Agathorn

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I do wish the game would give some indication of gene status for these. It just puts yet more weight on us to keep track of things either will silly names or notebooks.
 
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Agathorn

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Yeah Albino + Albino is not 100% Albino offspring. I just had two babies from albino parents, one is albino one is normal.
 

Kai

Kai
Agathorn said:
Yeah Albino + Albino is not 100% Albino offspring. I just had two babies from albino parents, one is albino one is normal.
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Yup. I've had normal bengals, lions and cheetahs all from variant x variant skin parents. It's uncommon but it happens ~5-10% of the time I'd say. Not sure why it's happening though.
 
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