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>>I hope all admit what ever side you are on, this practice could and probably will have an impact on our wild live.

>>I think if I put numbers to it, 2 years ago, I was 90% for 10% against, I'm now 30% for 70% against.

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How can breeding hybrids in captivity have an impact on wild life?

At least I would assume you meant wild life.

People breed hybrids, people breed pure stock.

The number of pure snakes bred every year seriously out numbers the number of hybrids bred every year.

Notice these are all bred in captivity. Nothing to do with wild life.

Some people say, "oh no, what if some of these were released into the wild?"

Well, for the ones that would survive, which wouldn't be a large number to begin with, you would then have to figure how many would breed successfully.

Even less.

So when these hybids breed in the wild it would have to be one species or the other which makes up the hybrid, right.

So, the offspring would then only be 25% whatever and 75% pure.

As these offspring spread out, some die, some survive and a few may breed successfully. As they spread out the chances they would happen to breed with one of their own siblings would be slim so you would expect them to breed with another pure specimen.

This now drops them down to only 12.5% whatever and 87.5% pure.

At this rate within 5 or 6 generations, the few that might survive and reproduce would be producing offspring that would be over 97% pure.

I just don't see the numbers supporting any impact what-so-ever to wild populations.

Someone would have to dump 100's to 1000's in a controlled environment to result in a devistating impact.

MY opinion anyway...for whatever that is worth
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.

"resistance is futile"

Jimmy (draybar)



Draybars Snakes



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• Jungle Corns???????? - AJCrader, Thu Mar 9 08:48:20 2006
• its a hybrid - xblackheart, Thu Mar 9 12:11:56 2006
• RE: its a hybrid - AJCrader, Thu Mar 9 15:19:11 2006
• RE: its a hybrid - DORK, Thu Mar 9 15:39:16 2006
• RE: its a hybrid - draybar, Thu Mar 9 16:44:02 2006
• its funny and true....ask kathy love - adamjeffery, Thu Mar 9 16:54:34 2006
• because.......... - jyohe, Thu Mar 9 19:43:13 2006
• RE: its a hybrid - xblackheart, Thu Mar 9 23:24:02 2006
• RE: its funny and true....ask kathy love - xblackheart, Thu Mar 9 23:25:24 2006
• Thanks - xblackheart, Thu Mar 9 23:28:36 2006
• The corn that ate itself... - kathylove, Fri Mar 10 00:03:28 2006
• Didn't work, so.... - kathylove, Fri Mar 10 00:06:20 2006
• I can't make it work... - kathylove, Fri Mar 10 00:08:24 2006
• here you go the corn that ate itself - adamjeffery, Fri Mar 10 10:17:07 2006
• Thanks! n/p - kathylove, Fri Mar 10 11:39:32 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 13:36:28 2006
• RARE HOOP SNAKE - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 14:18:18 2006
• RE: I can't make it work... - xblackheart, Fri Mar 10 14:41:34 2006
• RE: I can't make it work... - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 14:51:34 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - draybar, Fri Mar 10 17:09:55 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 18:24:26 2006
• one slight point... - draybar, Fri Mar 10 19:34:22 2006
• RE: one slight point... - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 20:53:08 2006
• non reptiles - xblackheart, Fri Mar 10 21:32:30 2006
• RE: non reptiles - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 10 21:52:22 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - phiber_optikx, Sat Mar 11 01:48:14 2006
• RE: one slight point... - draybar, Sat Mar 11 08:45:10 2006
• RE: non reptiles - draybar, Sat Mar 11 08:59:20 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - draybar, Sat Mar 11 09:20:20 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - HerpZillA, Sat Mar 11 21:06:13 2006
• RE: Jungle Corns My 3 cents - xblackheart, Sat Mar 11 22:25:50 2006