Just one small clarification to your statement:

"I never knew before today that F2 meant offspring from brother and sister."

A 1.1 pair of F2's would be
- brother and sister offspring from
- brother and sister parents from
- unrelated parents

Another way to look at it is:

F2's have only one set of grandparents (same grandparents on both sides)

F3's have one set of grandparents AND also have only one set of great grandparents (same on both sides of both sides)

etc. etc.


I do agree with you 100% and most of my projects are with unrelated stock except where I am knowingly producing F2's. I believe from what I've read that it would not be significantly detrimantal to go several filial generations to refine a given line. I have no plans myself to go past f2's.



>>I have never seen an ad for an F1 before, which is why, in my vast ignorance, I said what I said. The point I was making is that I work very hard to have breeding pairs that are not related to each other. I never knew before today that F2 meant brother and sister. One more mistake I won't make now. THank you for educating me.
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>>Caden


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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
13.26 BRB
11.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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