Yes line selective breeding does produce animals of the highest quality. But lets say you have a litter of sharps and there are animals that do not represent the sharp strain well and animals that are off the charts like there are in most if not all litters.

Are you going to sell the ones that do appear as nice as "Non breedable sharps" of course not. People are going to but them and breed the not so hot sharps to not so hot hets and produce a not so hot litters and so on. The price they sell their offspring will reflect that as it does toady.

Look at some of the red albinos out there or pastel albinos starting to pop up. Fetching up to 4 times what a normal kahl albino would and up to twice a normal looking sharp.

However, back to your theoretical litter. With the better looking animals in your litter your going to advertise them as "Screamer Sharps" or something and of course sell them for a higher price then the not so hot sharps am I wrong?

People who buy the best are not going to breed it to anything but the best so that is where line breeding comes from.

And that is how I came to the conclusion that as time progresses yes we are going to see better looking sharps as well as ones that do not appeal as much as say... a... Kahl strain lol

I hope you catch my drift and no hard feelings

Please keep us posted on your anery female any Aztec in her yet?

Greg Reinert

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