how to tell if a wolf has a albinism/melanism reccesive gene?

^^^^^^^^ help

Its impossible to tell without breeding the wolf and having it produce one of those mutations. 

There is a melanism stud, for example, and his pups all have a 15% chance to be carriers. However, we cannot tell which pups are carriers without them growing and being bred to either another possible carrier or a wolf with melanism; if a pup in that litter has melanism, you know the parents are carriers. 

There is also a stud who is confirmed to be an albinism carrier, because he produced an albino pup at the beginning of early access. However the pup died shortly after.

Yep. My current strategy will be to breed that female to their father (albino/melanistic) stud twice, and if they fail twice, I'm ruling it as not a carrier. Of course there's still a chance they are, but then I'll replace them with one of their children. Because they're bred with a carrier, the children have the same chance of being a carrier.

Of course, some users prefer clean breeding, therefore will not use this method. They also would be against buying a mutated wolf if it was inbred. This is just the way I'm doing it.

wish i had extra money :( but im spending all my spare change on territory,  im literally selling all my hunt prey for pennies, im hoping to get adopted...

Itll get easier with time!