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rainbowsrus
at Fri Apr 4 14:56:42 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rainbowsrus ]
Along those lines, Mike has males he produced from the original two siblings, those are the least inbred of the non-outcrossed lines. And you hit the nail on the head re what a individual breeder is working toward, short term buck or long term healthy stock. Even less valuable is what Mike and I are both working on, outcrossing hypo's to normals for a litter of hets, no hypos in those litters.
My personal plan is to produce several litters of outcrossed hets, each of which I will save back only a few (typical is 1.2)as mainly tools but of course will be valuable as long term breeders. Each of these "sets" will be bred together one time (only 1.1) for one litter of F2 Hypo's and 66% poss hets. I'm looking for that small percentage of hypo's for my own collection and all but a small qty of the litter to be sold (lucky buyer as most of the work is already done) Those F2 hypos will be bred to other outcrossed lines, both hets and hypos.
For example, right now I have 1.2 "Ann" line hets from the breeding loan between Mike and I. Chuck and Chrissy will be bred to produce one litter. The hypo(s) I keep from that litter will be "Ann" line F2 Hypos. I plan on doing the same thing with other females like Betty. The other females (as much as possible) will be bred with different hypo males to create various lineage groups. Those groups will be crossed to produce relatively unrelated groups of babies.
LOL, long ramble huh? Can you tell I think about this shtuff all the time.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats  
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RE: She finally did eat! - rainbowsrus, Fri Apr 4 14:56:42 2008