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Dear /an/
Wiki sucks. What kind of animals can be affected by "piebald", and do they cope well in the wild? On Discovery last night, Mike Rowe did this snake farm thing and they had a beautiful piebald boa. I want one :(
>> Anonymous
ho ho. i hope you have a deep wallet, piebald snakes are nearly triple the cost of regular snakes.
>> Anonymous
Like albinos, almost any animal has the *possibility* of producing piebalds. I've seen photos of whitetail deer, servals, squirrels, and several songbirds. Also much like albinos, the mutation often gets weeded out quickly since, in most places, having white colouration is detrimental to survival.
>> Anonymous
Now I'm curious... Do breeders try to "produce" these piebalds, or is it just random?
>> Anonymous
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>>122219
yes, since its a gene mutation. if it was just 'random', it would be one in a million.
this is a pied cockatiel, bred to look like this, which i believe is the same thing as piebald, i'm honestly not sure. peacocks are also bred to be pied. cockatiel mutations such as pied happen with inbreeding, which might also be how piebald snakes are that color but i know jack shit about snake genetics.

www.messybeast.com
i think this is the site where it has a lot of albino, piebald, leucistic, melanistic and other gene mutations. Right now the site doesn't seem to be loading so again, I'm not so sure.